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Correct use of
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HTML5 has started to see real use in the wild, but unfortunately there's already some misunderstandings concerning some parts of the draft - most notably the <section> element. People seem to have missed the purpose of this element - it is "not just a “semantic @
@”":http://blog.whatwg.org/is-not-just-a-semantic.

An example of what you can often see is this:

pre(brush:html). <!doctype html>


...

Lorem ipsum ...



...

Clearly, this is not the intended purpose of the <section> element. It was intended to make outlining of documents (creating TOCs) easier by grouping content to headings, instead of having several different heading elements. The correct usage of the <section> element, therefore, looks like this:

pre(brush:html). <!doctype html>

Title

Lorem Ipsum...


Subtitle

Lorem ipsum...


Sub-subtitle

Lorem ipsum...




Subtitle

Lorem ipsum...


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