If you want to start using HTML5’s new structural elements today, there’s nothing stopping you. Most browsers will allow you to style the new elements. It’s not that browsers actively support these elements, it’s just that most browsers allow you to use and style any element you care to invent.
Styling
Browsers won’t apply any default styling to the new elements. So, at the very least, you will want to declare that the new structural elements should force a line break:
section, article, header, footer, nav, aside, hgroup {
display: block;
}
That’s enough for most browsers. Internet Explorer has special needs. It resolutely refuses to recognize ...
