In HTML5, should the main navigation be inside or outside the element?

Question

In HTML5, I know that

can be used either inside or outside the page\'s masthead

element. For websites having both secon

Answer 1

I do not like putting the nav in the header. My reasoning is:

Logic

The header contains introductory information about the document. The nav is a menu that links to other documents. To my mind this means that the content of the nav belongs to the site rather than the document. An exception would be if the NAV held forward links.

Accessibility

I like to put menus at the end of the source code rather than the start. I use CSS to send it to the top of a computer screen or leave it at the end for text-speech browsers and small screens. This avoids the need for skip-links.