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

seems appropriate. According to the spec:

The aside element represents a section of a page that consists of content that is tangentially related to the content around the aside element, and which could be considered separate from that content. Such sections are often represented as sidebars in printed typography.

In this case, your relevant posts are tangentially related to the content of the page. I think this is exactly the type of content that an aside was meant for.