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The Body Element

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;

  1. Structural markup
  2. Semantic markup

Structural Markup

Structural markup embeds information about the structure of a document. Structure includes elements such as;

  • Headings
  • Paragraphs
  • Breaks
  • Lists

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

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.


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