The MDN article is a pretty straightforward explanation.
Basically anything in an article is “intended to be independently distributable or reusable”.
jtleathers,
Wrong “article”. I’m talking about the HTML5 tag.
That’s exactly what both Tara and jtleathers linked you to. Here’s another: http://htmldog.com/references/html/tags/article/
James,
My error, I sit corrected.
That said, how does WP handle such matters as articles, chapters, and sections?
Just like any HTML tag. You put them in your post content, and they’re in the post.
It’s down to the theme to style them and treat them differently than paragraph tags, like how most themes style blockquote tags differently than paragraph tags.
Think of WordPress and your plugins as the skeleton, your content is the muscular structure, your theme is the skin, and your styling (the theme’s style.css file and custom styles applied elsewhere) are the clothes, all making up one person.
How everything looks comes mostly from your theme and its styles.
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@james Huff,
great analogy 🙂
