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by alberth 819 days ago
Another thing, semantically - the HEADER and FOOTER should go before & after, respectively, the MAIN tag
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noiiyfdedvv 819 days ago
I was curious so I checked. According to MDN:

> Permitted parents: Any element that accepts flow content. Note that a <header> element must not be a descendant of an <address>, <footer> or another <header> element

I think you can use a header more or less anywhere, and it is a header for content contained by its parent.

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eddd-ddde 818 days ago
I think it is more related to whether your header and footer are actually the main content of your page, which may vary from page to page.
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noiiyfdedvv 818 days ago
Good point. Apparently (MDN) there should only be 1 main on a page, and it should not include sidebars, generic headers/footers repeated on other pages, etc.

So, you might have a site-wide header, a main containing a content-specific header / content / footer, and then a site-wide footer.

Not sure how useful that would be, but interesting to me as a sometime web hacker.

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