HTML Element: <section>
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The HTML <section> element indicates a section
in a document (e.g. a discrete chapter / heading / footer etc>. It is new in
HTML 5.
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>
<section>a section of text</section>
<br><br>Created using JavaScript:<br>
<span id="element"></span>
<script>
var x = document.createElement("SECTION");
x.textContent = "a section of text";
// or use var txt = document.createTextNode("a section of text");
// x.appendChild(txt);
document.getElementById("element").appendChild(x);
</script>
</body>
</html>
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