Does the use of and elements add any semantics to web pages?
A. According to the HTML 4 spec,
and “offer a generic mechanism for adding structure to documents.” Their only meaning is in dividing documents into sections, and as such, their presence implies that the content within has a specific, but undefined by the element markup, semantic. Thus they are nearly semantic-free.
Related Questions
A. According to the HTML 4 spec,
and “offer a generic mechanism for adding structure to documents.” Their only meaning is in dividing documents into sections, and as such, their presence implies that the content within has a specific, but undefined by the element markup, semantic. Thus they are nearly semantic-free.
