What's the best HTML5 tag to use for marking up blog excerpts?

Question

It\'s a common pattern for blogs to have archive pages (eg by date or category) which list relevant blog posts, along with excerpts (a paragraph or) and a link. I can\'t qui

Answer 1

I'd use:

is most appropriate for this:

The blockquote element represents a section that is quoted from another source.

Quoting yourself is not weird. The definition of the element doesn't say you have to quote somebody else. You do quote a document that lives under another URL.

I think

(instead of

) would be acceptable, but it's not necessary (the definition of article is pretty lax, it should have been called ;)

My litmus test for

is whether it'd be useful in an RSS/Atom feed, and you can find feeds with just article excerpts.

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The

element is only a part of

, which has different purpose.

describes role of the content within a page. When the excerpts are the main part of archive page, it's not really a tangential content. OTOH if it were a "See also" section on a post page, then

would be perfect.