Re: Proposal: <content> element

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> If you consider a typical blog or news site you have a header,
> sidebar, footer, and a content area. The content area is not a single
> article, but usually (on the frontpage) consists of the latest ten
> articles or so. It seems perfectly logical to have some kind of
> grouping element for these just like many pages already do.

I'm not sure why <div> isn't sufficient for this, and it's what I've 
recommended for people to use when I've been asked about this.  The main 
content of a section should just be considered to be whatever content 
follows its header.

But in this case, to help prevent the misuse of other elements like 
<section> and <article> for this purpose, which people seem tempted to 
do, it might be better to meet authors expectations on this and provide 
an explicit element for it.

But I agree with gsnedders about how we should do this, if we do it at 
all.  We should allow one content element per section, so a typical 
section could look like this:

<section> (or other sectioning element)
   <header/>
   <content/>
   <footer/>
</section>

And the main content could be considered to be the first content element 
that is a descendant of the body element (not necessarily a child of 
body), but which isn't a descendant of another sectioning element, if 
there is one, or otherwise simply the content after the body's header.

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