The <nav> element is the correct element to use in the case of site navigation links. You are correct about menu which when implemented will be like a desktop app menu.
The nav element is not generally accessibility supported in browsers yet, which means it's semantics are not conveyed, but you can add an ARIA landmark role to convey the meaning: <nav role=navigation> Regards Stevef Sent from my iPhone On 9 Jan 2011, at 12:44, "designer" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi L&G, > > I am making a site (html5) which has a <nav> section at the top of each page. > Some pages will also have a 'menu' which will be a short list of links to > other pages in the site, and these will appear lower down in the content of > the page. > > Instinct tells me that it is sensible to make this subset as follows: > > <menu> > <dl> > <dd>blah</dd> > <dd>blah</dd> > <dd>blah</dd> > </dl> > </menu> (where blah is a link to a page) > > But lots of folk seem to say that <menu> is only to be used for lists of > commands. It's not clear to me, anyway! Is the above 'wrong'? > > All advice gratefully recd. > > Bob > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [email protected] > ******************************************************************* > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
