HTML Element: <main>
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The HTML <main> element indicates the main
content of a document. It is new in HTML 5. Content within the element should
ideally be unique to the document and hence should not include material such as
sidebars, copyright information, logos and search forms.
There shouldn’t be more
than one <main> element in
a document and it shouldn’t be a descendent of an <article>, <aside>, <footer>, <header> or <nav> element.
The attributes
it can take are HTML
global attributes and HTML event attributes.
To
create or access such an element in JavaScript
see here. The
corresponding HTML DOM
object supports standard
DOM properties and methods. The default style applicable to this element is
shown here.
EXAMPLE:
HTML USED IN THIS EXAMPLE:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <!-- Copyright (c) Nematrian Limited 2018 -->
<head></head>
<body>
Created using HTML:<br>
<main>Text</main>
<br><br>Created using JavaScript:<br>
<main id="element"></main>
<script>
var x = document.createElement("MAIN");
var txt = document.createTextNode("Text");
x.appendChild(txt);
document.getElementById("element").appendChild(x);
</script>
</body>
</html>
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