As a final referential segue before diving into the HTML5 elements used in the Dreamweaver layouts, it will be helpful to identify particular design and formatting issues specific to the <header>
, <section>
, <footer>
, <aside>
, <nav>
, and <article>
elements.
For the <header>
and <footer>
, it will often be the case that you want to define a customized background, along with tweaked padding.
The formatting for <
section>
and <article>
elements is often inherited from parent elements, that is, the global HTML tags such as the <body>
tag, or enclosing tags such as a container tag, discussed earlier. However, within that, <section>
and <article>
elements might well have unique margin or padding, and specific formatting applied to text only within those elements.
The <nav>
element, containing links, might well have a specific link formatting (colors, underlining, and so on). The <aside...