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HTML HTML Basics Structuring Your Content Using Multiple <header> and <footer> Elements

Footer vs Header Tags

Why is the footer tag not nested and not add <p> tags vs the header tags are nested and not in the same line and add <p>?

1 Answer

rydavim
rydavim
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My guess it that it's just a stylistic choice by the teacher, because this particular footer only has a single line of text. Personally, I would have nested a p element inside of the footer regardless, but it is not required syntax-wise. footer and p are both block-level text elements, so it would likely display similarly either way.

Often a footer would include more information than that, so you would need nested elements. This is a fairly simple example, so you don't.