Article

The HTML   element was introduced in HTML5. It defines external content. The external content could be a news-article from an external provider, or text from a web log (blog), or text from a forum, or any other content from an external source. This element must not be a descendant of an  element. When  elements are nested, the inner ones represent articles related to the outer one. For example, the comments of a blog post can be  elements nested in the one representing the blog post. Author information of an  element can be provided through the   element, but it doesn't apply to nested   elements. The publication date and time of an  element can be described using the   attribute of a   element.

Attributes
See Global HTML Attributes and Standard HTML5 Attributes.

HTML example:

Netscape is dead

AOL has a long history on the Internet, being one of the first companies to really get people online.....

Rendering
The article element by itself does not have a visual rendering, other than being a block element. It does however influence the rendering of the element, see that page for more information.

Coding rules
The element belongs to the Flow content category.