Header element
The HTML header element represents introductory content or navigational aids for a document or section.
Build a Website with ChatGPT
The header element is an HTML element representing introductory content for a page or section.
- How it is used
- Introduces a page or site with identifying content before its main content.
- How deep it goes
- Defines header markup, typical contents, and basic CSS customization without detailing HTML specifications.
- Examples
- Demonstrates logo, title, and tagline headers for book clubs, journals, interest sites, galleries, and catalogs.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via ChatGPT prompts to generate a page header with specified branding and styling.
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Web Design Playground, Second Edition
The HTML header element represents introductory content for a page or section, commonly including a title, logo, or related introductory material.
- How it is used
- Marks the introductory area of a page, commonly grouping a logo and primary title.
- How deep it goes
- Defines the element and builds it into styled gallery and portfolio layouts, without exploring specification-level rules.
- Examples
- Uses Semantics Depot, Ampersand Photography, and This Old Book headers with logos, titles, and navigation.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch by wrapping introductory logo and heading content in a semantic header.
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Related concepts
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- HTMLpart of · HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard markup language for structuring content and elements in web documents.
- blogpart of · A blog is a regularly updated website or online publication containing dated or organized posts, articles, or multimedia entries.
- flex containeruses · A flex container is an element whose children are laid out as flex items according to the CSS Flexible Box Layout model.
- nav elementhas part · The HTML nav element represents a section of a document containing navigation links or other navigation-related content.
- title elementhas part · The HTML title element specifies a document’s title, which browsers and other technologies use in tabs, history, bookmarks, search results, and accessibility contexts.
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