<article>: The Article Contents element
Baseline
Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The <article> HTML element represents a self-contained composition in a document, page, application, or site, which is intended to be independently distributable or reusable (e.g., in syndication). Examples include: a forum post, a magazine or newspaper article, or a blog entry, a product card, a user-submitted comment, an interactive widget or gadget, or any other independent item of content.
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A given document can have multiple articles in it; for example, on a blog that shows the text of each article one after another as the reader scrolls, each post would be contained in an <article> element, possibly with one or more <section>s within.
Attributes
This element only includes the global attributes.
Usage notes
- Each
<article>should be identified, typically by including a heading (<h1>-<h6>element) as a child of the<article>element. - When an
<article>element is nested, the inner element represents an article related to the outer element. For example, the comments of a blog post can be<article>elements nested in the<article>representing the blog post. - Author information of an
<article>element can be provided through the<address>element, but it doesn't apply to nested<article>elements. - The publication date and time of an
<article>element can be described using thedatetimeattribute of a<time>element.
Examples
Result
Technical summary
| Content categories | Flow content, sectioning content, palpable content |
|---|---|
| Permitted content | Flow content. |
| Tag omission | None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory. |
| Permitted parents |
Any element that accepts
flow content. Note that an <article> element must not be a
descendant of an <address> element.
|
| Implicit ARIA role |
article
|
| Permitted ARIA roles |
application, document,
feed, main,
none, presentation,
region
|
| DOM interface | HTMLElement |
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML # the-article-element |