<article>: The Article Contents element

The <article> HTML element represents a self-contained composition in a document, page, application, or site, which is intended to be independently distributable or reusable (e.g., in syndication). Examples include: a forum post, a magazine or newspaper article, or a blog entry, a product card, a user-submitted comment, an interactive widget or gadget, or any other independent item of content.

Try it

HTML Demo: <article>

<article class="forecast">
    <h1>Weather forecast for Seattle</h1>
    <article class="day-forecast">
        <h2>03 March 2018</h2>
        <p>Rain.</p>
    </article>
    <article class="day-forecast">
        <h2>04 March 2018</h2>
        <p>Periods of rain.</p>
    </article>
    <article class="day-forecast">
        <h2>05 March 2018</h2>
        <p>Heavy rain.</p>
    </article>
</article>

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<article class="forecast">
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    <h1>Weather forecast for Seattle</h1>
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    <article class="day-forecast">
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        <h2>03 March 2018</h2>
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        <p>Rain.</p>
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    </article>
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    <article class="day-forecast">
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        <h2>04 March 2018</h2>
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        <p>Periods of rain.</p>
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    </article>
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    <article class="day-forecast">
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        <h2>05 March 2018</h2>
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        <p>Heavy rain.</p>
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    </article>
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</article>
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​

.forecast {
    margin: 0;
    padding: .3rem;
    background-color: #eee;
    font: 1rem 'Fira Sans', sans-serif;
}

.forecast > h1,
.day-forecast {
    margin: .5rem;
    padding: .3rem;
    font-size: 1.2rem;
}

.day-forecast {
    background: right/contain content-box border-box no-repeat
        url('/media/examples/rain.svg') white;
}

.day-forecast > h2,
.day-forecast > p {
    margin: .2rem;
    font-size: 1rem;
}

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    background: right/contain content-box border-box no-repeat

Output

Weather forecast for Seattle

03 March 2018

Rain.

04 March 2018

Periods of rain.

05 March 2018

Heavy rain.

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 categories	Flow content, sectioning content, palpable content
Permitted content	Flow content.
Tag omission	None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory.
Permitted parents	Any element that accepts flow content. Note that an `<article>` element must not be a descendant of an `<address>` element.
Implicit ARIA role	`article`
Permitted ARIA roles	`application`, `document`, `feed`, `main`, `none`, `presentation`, `region`
DOM interface	`HTMLElement`

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">
  <h2>Jurassic Park</h2>
  <section class="main_review">
    <h3>Review</h3>
    <p>Dinos were great!</p>
  </section>
  <section class="user_reviews">
    <h3>User reviews</h3>
    <article class="user_review">
      <h4>Too scary!</h4>
      <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">
      <h4>Love the dinos!</h4>
      <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>

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard # the-article-element

Browser compatibility

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	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android
`article`

Legend

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