@megajumper32135 posted a new topic, subject "<nav> tag". It read:

   Hey!  
    can you please help in < nav > tag in chapter 16 of common elements in html…i cant really understand the importance of this tag.

So @stetim94 replied

    MDN Web Docs
    
    ### <nav>: The Navigation Section element
    
    The HTML nav element represents a section of a page whose purpose is to provide navigation links, either within the current document or to other documents. Common examples of navigation sections are menus, tables of contents, and indexes.

To which @arrayninja24186 replied

    Hi stetim94,
    
    My outcome website still works well without the nav tags. So its significance is for easier to read and fix the code?
    
    Thank you!

So @stetim94 replied

    `<nav>` meant for more semantic markup (letting the browser know) that those links aren't just normal links, they are a navigation menu. This can be useful for accessibility (tabs, mobile devices,browsers, such as screen readers for disabled users, can use this element to determine whether to omit the initial rendering of this content.) and other things
    
    if you use html5, you should use `<nav>`, its better (although on the surface they may appear the same)

To which @system replied

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