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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Include External CSS

Adham Hammoud
Adham Hammoud
738 Points
Posted by Adham Hammoud
Adham Hammoud
738 Points

Why Mr.Nick added a section tag to the portfolio un-ordered list but he didn't for the footer ?

Why mr nick didn't add <section> inside the <body> to the footer like he did at the <ul> of the portfolio ??

3 Answers

Paul Hubbard
Paul Hubbard
5,818 Points
Paul Hubbard
Paul Hubbard
5,818 Points

The reason he used a section tag with the ul (or un-ordered list) section of the webpage and not with the footer section is because he wanted to add styles, or CSS, to only that "section" of the webpage, without changing or affecting any of the other parts of the page. If this answer doesn't make sense, send me a message and I can try to explain a little further.

Adham Hammoud
Adham Hammoud
738 Points
Adham Hammoud
Adham Hammoud
738 Points

so could he use ID or Classes instead of that ?

Thanks

Paul Hubbard
Paul Hubbard
5,818 Points

Yes, he could. And upon further reading, it turns out that when using the section tag it should be like putting a chapter in a book. It should have an h1-h6 tag that would act as a title, it should only contain related information to that title, and shouldn't necessarily be used for styling (even though in normalize.css Mr. Nick used it as a styling tag). It can (apparently) be used for styling, but it has other purposes; like helping people who need a webpage reader. I found an article that can go in to a full explanation of the tag, and hopefully it will help you better understand!

article: http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2013/10/using-html5-section-element/

I hope this helps, and feel free to ask if you have any more questions!

Adham Hammoud
Adham Hammoud
738 Points
Adham Hammoud
Adham Hammoud
738 Points

Thank you very much