Refactoring legacy HTML structure for better SEO and performance but facing rendering issues in mobile browsers
I'm upgrading from an older version and I'm attempting to set up Hey everyone, I'm running into an issue that's driving me crazy. I've been struggling with this for a few days now and could really use some help. This might be a silly question, but While refactoring an old codebase for a web application built on jQuery 3.5 and Bootstrap 4, I’m tackling an outdated HTML structure that doesn’t adhere to current SEO practices... The site has a lot of `<div>` tags used for semantic content, which I plan to replace with appropriate HTML5 semantic elements like `<header>`, `<article>`, and `<footer>`. However, I ran into issues where the newly implemented semantic elements are not rendering properly on mobile devices, particularly in Chrome for iOS. ```html <div class="container"> <div class="header"> <h1>My Project Title</h1> </div> <div class="content"> <p>This is a paragraph in the content section.</p> </div> <div class="footer"> <p>Footer content here.</p> </div> </div> ``` I replaced the above structure with: ```html <article class="container"> <header> <h1>My Project Title</h1> </header> <section class="content"> <p>This is a paragraph in the content section.</p> </section> <footer> <p>Footer content here.</p> </footer> </article> ``` After making these changes, I noticed that the layout breaks on mobile, where the text in the `<footer>` gets cut off, and the content doesn’t seem to stack as expected. Debugging with DevTools, I found that the CSS styles are possibly overriding the default margins and padding I intended to use. I've tried adding specific media queries to adjust the layout for smaller screens: ```css @media (max-width: 768px) { article { padding: 1em; } footer { display: block; margin-top: 1em; } } ``` Despite these efforts, the rendering is still inconsistent, and I’m also concerned about how search engines will interpret these changes. Are there any best practices for ensuring that these elements render properly across all devices, and how should I troubleshoot the CSS conflicts? Any insights on this would be greatly appreciated. My development environment is Ubuntu. What am I doing wrong? For context: I'm using Html on Ubuntu. What's the best practice here? Is there a simpler solution I'm overlooking? I'm working on a REST API that needs to handle this.