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Re: Semantics: HTML Lists vs. HTML5 Article

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From: Guy Hickling
Date: Jan 18, 2016 6:40PM

Actually you wouldn't use article tags for this purpose. The article
element is for a piece of prose that is a complete, independant article on
some subject. A W3C note <https://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/article.html>
on the HTML5 specification for article says:

"The article element represents a section of content that forms an
independent part of a document or site; for example, a magazine or
newspaper article, or a blog entry."

In other words, it means pretty much what "article" means in the publishing
world of magasines and newspapers. The tag you want is the HTML list tag.

Regards,
Guy
​ Hickling​