[whatwg] "content" element, which we need in our documents

[Ian Yang]

Please note that the example of the nav in HTML5 spec uses <div> to wrap
all the contents of the page other than the header and footer.

And developers always wrap contents with <div id="content"></div> or <div
class="content"></div>. Your website does that, too.

If everything is content, then we would have never seen codes mentioned
above.


Regards,
Ian Yang


2012/6/29 Ashley Sheridan <ash at ashleysheridan.co.uk>

>
>
> Ian Yang <ian.html at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi editors in chief and everyone else,
> >
> >How have you been recently?
> >
> >As many of you may have been aware that there is an important
> >sectioning
> >element we have been short of for a long time: the "content" element.
> >
> >Remember how we sectioned our documents in those old days? It's the
> >meaningless <div>s. We used them and added id="header", id="content",
> >id="sidebar", and id="footer" to them.
> >
> >After HTML5 came out, we started to have new and semantic elements like
> >"header", "aside", and "footer" to improve our documents.
> >
> >However, today, we are still using the meaningless <div> for our
> >content.
> >
> >The main content forms an important region. And we often wrap it with
> >an
> >element. By doing so, we distinguish the region from the header and the
> >footer, and also prevent all of its child elements (block level or
> >inline
> >level) being incorrectly at the same level as the header and the
> >footer.
> >
> >In the first example of the intro section of the nav element in HTML5
> >Spec
> >( http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/single-page.html#the-nav-element ) (the
> >page
> >takes a while to be fully loaded), the bottom note states: "Notice the
> >div
> >elements being used to wrap all the contents of the page other than the
> >header and footer, and all the contents of the blog entry other than
> >its
> >header and footer."
> >
> >This example mentioned above is a typical situation that we need an
> >element
> >for the main content. So instead of keep wrapping our contents with the
> >meaningless <div>, why not let the "content" element join HTML5?
> >
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >Ian Yang
> >Meaningful and semantic HTML lover  |  Front-end developer
>
> I am pretty sure this was discussed a few months back and the answer was
> that everything is content, so no need for a content element. The <header>
> and <footer> just mark up areas of that content with special meaning, but
> its still all the main content.
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://ashleysheridan.co.uk
>