Which Element Should I Choose?

Which element should I use?

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Not just any element will do; it has to be the right element for the job. Even though the web is changing fast, it’s important to know what things mean in 2014. I wanted to organize a flowchart simply for my own understanding, but I thought that publishing it would help other people out as well.

Thanks to HTML5 Doctor for writing such beautiful summaries of the ever-authoritative but unrelentlessly-daunting W3C spec.

Drew Powers is a frontend developer at Envy.