<aside>: The Aside element
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The <aside>
HTML element represents a portion of a document whose content is only indirectly related to the document's main content. Asides are frequently presented as sidebars or call-out boxes.
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Attributes
This element only includes the global attributes.
Usage notes
- Do not use the
<aside>
element to tag parenthesized text, as this kind of text is considered part of the main flow.
Examples
Using <aside>
This example uses <aside>
to mark up a paragraph in an article. The paragraph is only indirectly related to the main article content:
html
<article>
<p>
The Disney movie <cite>The Little Mermaid</cite> was first released to
theatres in 1989.
</p>
<aside>
<p>The movie earned $87 million during its initial release.</p>
</aside>
<p>More info about the movie…</p>
</article>
Result
Technical summary
Content categories | Flow content, sectioning content, palpable content. |
---|---|
Permitted content | Flow content. |
Tag omission | None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory. |
Permitted parents |
Any element that accepts
flow content. Note that an <aside> element must not be a
descendant of an <address> element.
|
Implicit ARIA role | complementary |
Permitted ARIA roles |
feed , none ,
note , presentation ,
region , search
|
DOM interface | HTMLElement |
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML Standard # the-aside-element |
Browser compatibility
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