Should I use s and s inside my s?

Question

The title pretty much explains it.

Now that we have a dedicated

tag,

Is this:

Answer 1

the nav element and the list provide different semantical information:

• The nav element communicates that we're dealing with a major navigation block

• The list communicates that the links inside this navigation block form a list of items

At http://w3c.github.io/html/sections.html#the-nav-element you can see that a nav element could also contain prose.

So yes, having a list inside a nav element does add meaning.

Answer 2

There is a really detailed post on CSS Tricks about this exact question. It is obviously a hotly debated issue; the post has over 200 comments.

Navigation in Lists: To Be or Not To Be (CSS Tricks, Jan 2013)