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Post March 3rd, 2011, 6:58 pm

In the designing of blogs, what would be the best wrapping element for comments?

At first I figured a "section" tag, but reading through w3schools definitions, I'm starting to feel like an "aside" tag would be more accurate, considering the comments would be related to the main blog article.

<aside>
For content aside from the content it is placed in. The aside content should be related to the surrounding content

<section>
For a section in a document. Such as chapters, headers, footers, or any other sections of the document

I keep going back and forth on this. What do you guys think?
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Post March 3rd, 2011, 6:58 pm

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Post March 3rd, 2011, 7:23 pm

I'd be inclined to use <section>. To me, <aside> seems more appropriate for large blockquotes or sections of information that occur within the main content, not after it.
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Post March 5th, 2011, 7:06 am

I think it depends on how strict the moderation of comments on the blog will be. If there's strict moderation, preventing side-tracking in the comments, then I'd go with an <aside/>. Otherwise, I'd go for a more generic <section/>.
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