HTML nav Tag defines navigation links, these navigation links are mostly for the navigation within the current website. These navigation links tell about the structure and content of website.
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Syntax of HTML nav Tag
The Syntax of HTML nav Tag is shown below, It has both starting tag and ending tag.
<nav>
</nav>
Usage of HTML nav Tag
HTML nav Tag is commonly used to make main menu of website or a web page. This menu contains links of other pages of website.
HTML nav Tag is mostly the first visible element on a website or web page. HTML nav Tag is mostly defined inside the header tag of HTML document.
HTML nav Tag is the latest HTML5 Tag.
Other common links of a web page are not put inside this main navigation.
Example of HTML nav Tag
Simple example of HTML nav Tag is shown below.
<nav>
<a href='/index'>Home</a>
<a href='/contact'>Contact</a>
<a href='/about'>About</a>
</nav>
In above example we have used HTML nav Tag to define our main navigation.
Browser Support for HTML nav Tag
HTML nav Tag is supported by these versions of latest browsers like Chrome (5.0), Firefox (4.0), Edge (9.0), Opera (11.1) and more.
Global Attributes Support in HTML nav Tag
The HTML nav Tag supports all Global Attributes.
Event Attributes Support in HTML nav Tag
The HTML nav Tag supports all Event Attributes.
HTML nav Tag Video
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