Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development in 24 Hours

Hour 9. Adding Meaning with HTML5 Sectioning and Semantic Elements

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• How to define sections of HTML5 documents

• The four primary sectioning elements

• Understanding elements like <figure> and <details>

• Using the many semantic elements

• Providing meaning with semantic elements

Many of the new elements in HTML5 relate to how the content is organized on the web page. These are called sectioning and heading elements. This hour you will learn more about these elements as well as some new semantic tags that help you define your web pages more precisely.

You will learn the value of marking up your pages semantically and about some of the new and existing semantic elements that you may not be using.

What Are Sectioning ...