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article element | article object

[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]

Represents a self-contained composition in an application or document and that might be independently distributable or reusable (for example, in syndication).

Standards information

There are no standards that apply here.

HTML information

Closing Tag	required
CSS Display	block

DOM Information

Inheritance Hierarchy

Node

article

Element

article

Remarks

An article element might represent a forum post, a magazine or newspaper article, a blog entry, a user-submitted comment, an interactive widget or gadget, or any other independent item of content.

When article elements are nested, the inner article should be related to the contents of the outer article. For example, a blog entry on a site that accepts user-submitted comments might represent the comments as article elements nested within the article element for the blog entry.

Windows Internet Explorer 9. The article element is only supported for webpages displayed in IE9 Standards mode. For more information, see Defining Document Compatibility.

Note Internet Explorer 9 does not natively support the time element, which is intended to provide the publication date of the article element.

Examples

The following example shows the basic structure of an article using article, header, and footer elements.

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<article>
 <header>
  <h1>Article Heading</h1>
 </header>
 <p>Article Text</p>
 <p>...</p>
 <footer>Article Footer</footer>
</article>