title: HTML 5 Page without main <header>?
body: <p>Is it bad to nave no <code>&lt;header&gt;</code>?</p>
  
  <p>I have this basic structure but I am thinking about wrapping a header arround everything between the body start and the content because the header has also this nice shema.org markup attached. Good Idea?</p>
  
  <p>Just because sometimes the header is not there but the navbars actually contain the brandname and are sort of headers themseves.</p>
  
  <p>if I do this how should I markup whats the <code>&lt;header&gt;</code> right now? A section inside a header is not valid right? Just a normal <code>&lt;div&gt;</code> I guess.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;body&gt;
  
  &lt;div class="nav1"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;brandname&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;nav&gt;...&lt;/nav&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;header&gt;&lt;h1&gt;brandname&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;slogan&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/header&gt; &lt;!-- sometimes this is not there --&gt;
  
  &lt;div class="nav2"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;brandname&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;nav&gt;...&lt;/nav&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;div&gt;content ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>To this</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;body&gt;
  &lt;header itemtype="http://schema.org/WPHeader" ...&gt;
  &lt;div class="nav1"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;brandname&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;nav&gt;...&lt;/nav&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;div&gt;&lt;h1&gt;brandname&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;slogan&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;!-- sometimes this is not there --&gt;
  
  &lt;div class="nav2"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;brandname&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;nav&gt;...&lt;/nav&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/header&gt;
  &lt;div&gt;content ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Multiple headers not valid either or? I am thinking of it this way as using the <code>&lt;header&gt;</code> without any CSS styles just for semantic markup. I could think of styling barriers created with this so not 100% satisfied with this.</p>
  
  <p>Or is this valid.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;body&gt;
  
  &lt;header class="nav1"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;brandname&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;nav&gt;...&lt;/nav&gt;&lt;/header&gt;
  
  &lt;header&gt;&lt;h1&gt;brandname&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;slogan&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/header&gt; &lt;!-- sometimes this is not there --&gt;
  
  &lt;header class="nav2"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;brandname&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;nav&gt;...&lt;/nav&gt;&lt;/header&gt;
  
  &lt;div&gt;content ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>// just read <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4837269/html5-using-header-or-footer-tag-twice">html5: using header or footer tag twice?</a> this and looks like I stick with the 2nd solution since I not really like the idea of having no header at all</p>
  
  <p>Dont be afraid to answer ;)</p>