or (HTML5)

Question

W3Schools.com and I\'m pretty sure I remember seeing W3C.org state that

should be used for Toolbar menus and listing form control commands.

Answer 1

is a section (like

or

) so it will appear in your HTML document outline. Due to this, I would use 99% of the time. To me,

is a mix between

and , with the added constriction that

should be used specifically for navigation, whereas can be for anything that might be called a menu (including a navigation bar). So most navigation bars, despite the fact that they are navigation bars, do not fit the strict requirements of

, and is more appropriate.

I have never in my web development career found a situation where I wanted my navigation bar to be part of the document outline.