A given document can have multiple articles in it; for example, on a blog that shows the text of each article one after another as the reader scrolls, each post would be contained in an <article> element, possibly with one or more <section>s within.

Content categoriesFlow content, sectioning content, palpable contentPermitted contentFlow content.Tag omissionNone, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory.Permitted parentsAny element that accepts flow content. Note that an <article> element must not be a descendant of an <address> element.Implicit ARIA rolearticlePermitted ARIA rolesapplication, document, feed, main, none, presentation, regionDOM interfaceHTMLElement

Attributes

This element only includes the global attributes.

Usage notes

• Each <article> should be identified, typically by including a heading (<h1>-<h6> element) as a child of the <article> element.
• When an <article> element is nested, the inner element represents an article related to the outer element. For example, the comments of a blog post can be <article> elements nested in the <article> representing the blog post.
• Author information of an <article> element can be provided through the <address> element, but it doesn't apply to nested <article> elements.
• The publication date and time of an <article> element can be described using the datetime attribute of a <time> element. Note that the pubdate attribute of <time> is no longer a part of the W3C HTML5 standard.

Examples

<article class="film_review">
  <header>
    <h2>Jurassic Park</h2>
  </header>
  <section class="main_review">
    <p>Dinos were great!</p>
  </section>
  <section class="user_reviews">
    <article class="user_review">
      <p>Way too scary for me.</p>
      <footer>
        <p>
          Posted on
          <time datetime="2015-05-16 19:00">May 16</time>
          by Lisa.
        </p>
      </footer>
    </article>
    <article class="user_review">
      <p>I agree, dinos are my favorite.</p>
      <footer>
        <p>
          Posted on
          <time datetime="2015-05-17 19:00">May 17</time>
          by Tom.
        </p>
      </footer>
    </article>
  </section>
  <footer>
    <p>
      Posted on
      <time datetime="2015-05-15 19:00">May 15</time>
      by Staff.
    </p>
  </footer>
</article>