HTML5 <article> Tag

Example

<article>
<a href="http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/
end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers">
Netscape is dead</a><br />
AOL has a long history on the internet, being one of
the first companies to really get people online.....
</article>

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Definition and Usage

The <article> tag specifies independent, self-contained content.

An article should make sense on its own and it should be possible to distribute it independently from the rest of the site.

Examples of possible articles:

forum post
newspaper article
blog entry
user comment

Differences Between HTML 4.01 and HTML5

The <article> tag is new in HTML5.

Standard Attributes

The <article> tag also supports the Standard Attributes in HTML5.

Event Attributes

The <article> tag also supports the Event Attributes in HTML5.