The body element is where all of the “meat & potatoes”, if you will, of the site gets placed. This is the data that I rendered by the browser and displayed on the clients local computer.
Within the body there will generally be 2 types of markup used;
Structural markup embeds information about the structure of a document. Structure includes elements such as;
These elements will help guide a user visually and provide information about the type of content through a document. These elements are also used by the browser and DOM to understand the content of a document. A browser will use this structural markup to assist screen readers and other accessibility-based software.
Semantic markup us used to reinforce the semantics, or meaning, of the information in a document. Semantic markup might be used to place emphasis on a word or phrase, identify a word as being strong, provide citations or quotations
, link to definitions, or distinguish editorial changes.