<section> inside <article> is it really the case?

Question

I have seen many use of <section>s typically used to contain few <div>s. I guess section is used for styling a web page properly. I didn't see much use of <article> but in the HTML course they are saying a <section> sould be declared inside an <article> tag. Which i have never seen. Does <article> tag have a real life use as a parent of <section> at all?

Answer 1

You can use <section> to structure an article, or vice-versa, both need headings(h1-h6).

I usually tend to use <section> inside <main> to place my content in the page and if I have some content like a blog post I put it in an <article> nested in a <section>.

You can find more info here:

- http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_article.asp

- http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_section.asp