I\'m currently using the above tags in this way (classic tag order):
...
...
I see what you are trying to do, you are trying to use the <body>
tag as the container for the main content of the page. Instead, use the <main> tag, as specified in the HTML5 spec. I use this layout:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head> *Metadata* </head>
<body>
<header>
*<h1> and other important stuff </h1>*
<nav> *Usually a formatted <Ul>* </nav>
</header>
<main> *All my content* </main>
<footer> *Copyright, links, social media etc* </footer>
</body>
</html>
I'm not 100% sure but I think that anything outside the <body>
tag is considered metadata and will not be rendered by the browser. I don't think that the DOM can access it either.
To conclude, use the <main>
tag for your content and keep formatting your HTML the correct way as you have in your first code snippet. You used the <section>
tag but I think that comes with some weird formatting issues when you try to apply CSS.
This is the general structure of an html document.
<html>
<head>
Title, meta-data, scripts, etc go here... Don't confuse with header
</head>
<body>
You body stuff comes here...
<footer>
Your footer stuff goes here...
</footer>
</body>
</html>
According to the HTML standard, the content model of the HTML element is:
A head element followed by a body element.
You can either define the BODY element in the source code:
<html>
<body>
... web-page ...
</body>
</html>
or you can omit the BODY element:
<html>
... web-page ...
</html>
However, it is invalid to place the BODY element inside the web-page content (in-between other elements or text content), like so:
<html>
... content ...
<body>
... content ...
</body>
... content ...
</html>
Well, the <head>
tag has nothing to do with the <header>
tag. In the head
comes all the metadata and stuff, while the header
is just a layout component.
And layout comes into body
. So I disagree with you.
If you really want it to look more semantic like having the <body>
in the middle you can use the <main>
element. With all the recent advances the <body>
element is not as semantic as it once was but you just have to think of it as a wrapper in which the view port sees.
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<header>
</header>
<main>
<section></section>
<article></article>
</main>
<footer>
</footer>
<body>
</html>
Even though the <head>
and <body>
tags aren't required, the elements are still there - it's just that the browser can work out where the tags would have been from the rest of the document.
The other elements you're using still have to be inside the <body>