On a website with multiple menus, sub-menues, etc, is it appropriate to use multiple nav tags, or just use it once and for the others use unordered lists?
Represents navigation for a document. The nav element is a section containing links to other documents or to parts within the current document.
Not all groups of links on a page need to be in a nav element — only groups of primary navigation links. In particular, it is common for footers to have a list of links to various key parts of a site, but the footer element is more appropriate in such cases._
Nav and footer tags can be used multiple times on a page in HTML5, albeit it really doesn't make much sense to use them multiple times. The same is true of header tags so long as they're wrapped in a section or article tag.
On a website with multiple menus, sub-menues, etc, is it appropriate to use multiple nav tags, or just use it once and for the others use unordered lists?
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Per HTML5Doctor.com
Nav and footer tags can be used multiple times on a page in HTML5, albeit it really doesn't make much sense to use them multiple times. The same is true of header tags so long as they're wrapped in a section or article tag.
Nav can be used multiple times on a page in HTML5.
CAN...yes
SHOULD...probably not.
I've always worked in the basis that the NAV tag is only for the primary page/site navigations.
If my main (header) navigation area is used for the [nav] then any other menus can be in divs.
according to the spec it's not inappropriate to use the nav tag multiple times on a page.
i tend to only use it for the primary site navigation, not inter-page navigation, but that's just a personal preference.
Understood. Thank you
Here's a follow up question, wrapping an unordered list with the tag, or not use an unordered list at all? Or use where appropriate?
For main navigation I always use
ul.Any of the new HTML5 elements can be used multiple times, apart from the new MAIN element, which can only be used once.
I would say main navigation, footer navigation and breadcrumb would be good use cases for the NAV element.
@barkins - I would personally wrap the UL in a NAV if navigation. So NAV>UL>LI
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