Article element

HTML5 Article is a HTML5 semantic element, similar to and. It is most commonly used to contain information that may be distributed independently from the rest of the site or application it appears in.

Features and usage
The HTML5 element represents a complete composition in a web page or web application that is independently distributable or reusable, e.g. in syndication. This could be 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.

Examples
At its most basic, can be used to encapsulate a body of text and a corresponding title like so:

Forum entries and comments are typically implemented by nesting tags:

Attributes
The element only includes the global HTML attributes such as contenteditable, id, and title. However, pubdate, an optional boolean attribute of the  element, is often used in conjunction with. If present, it indicates that the element is the date the  was published. Note that pubdate applies only to the parent element, or to the document as a whole.

Comparison with &lt;section&gt;
HTML5 introduced both and ; both are semantic tags, defining sections in a document, such as chapters, headers, footers. The element is effectively a specialized kind of  and it has a more specific meaning, referring to an independent, self-contained block of related content.

Nesting examples
To better organize independent content tags can be nested inside  tags:

Conversely, it may sometime be appropriate to nest an element inside a  element. For example, in a web page containing several articles on varying subjects:

Browser support
The following browsers have support for this element:


 * Desktop
 * Google Chrome 5.0 and higher
 * Firefox 4.0 and higher
 * Internet Explorer 9.0 and higher
 * Safari 4.1 and higher
 * Opera 11.1 and higher
 * Mobile
 * Android 2.2 and higher
 * Firefox Mobile (Gecko) 4.0 and higher
 * IE Mobile 9.0 and higher
 * Safari Mobile 5.0 and higher
 * Opera Mobile 11.0 and higher