HTML <article> tag

The <article> tag specifies a section or a content that could stand independently. Mainly, it is used in writing blog or any other forum post, making newspaper, magazine etc.

Type: Block Element

Example of <article> tag

<article>
--- content here ---
</article>

Supported Browsers

Tag	Chrome	Internet Explorer	Firefox	Safari	Opera Mini
<article>	6.0 or higher	No	4.0 or higher	5.0 or higher	11 or higher

Full code example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<article>
<h2> Blog name </h2>
<p> Blog content </p>
</article> 
</body>
</html>

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Output on the browser

Blog name

Blog content

Since <article> is a block-level element, it will give a line break before and after.

More reference

<article> element is functionally similar both in style and display with <div> element. But in order to write a well defined section, use <article> tag because it provides more semantic information to the screen readers, search engines like Google.

Note that <article> element is new in HTML5 but not supported in HTML 4.01.

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