Which HTML5 tag should I use to mark up an author’s name?

Question

For example of a blog-post or article.

header

09-02-2011
John
My articl         


        

Answer 1

In HTML5 we can use some semantic labels that help organize the information regarding your type of content, but additional and related to the subject you can check schema.org. It is an initiative of Google, Bing and Yahoo that aims to help search engines to better understand websites through microdata attributes. Your post could look like this:

  
header
  09-02-2011
  

    

        
        John
    
  


    My article....