Section (typography)
Subdivision of a chapter
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In books and documents, a section is a subdivision, especially of a chapter.[1][2]
In fiction, sections often represent scenes, and accordingly the space separating them is sometimes also called a scene break.[3] Scene breaks represent gaps in story time that do not correspond to discourse time, and thus reveal the story-discourse distinction.[4]
In law, sections are divisions of legislation that may be deeply nested to as little as single sentences.[5]
Section form and numbering
Some documents, especially legal documents, may have numbered sections, such as Section Two of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or Internal Revenue Code section 183.[5] The symbol § (section sign) prefixed to a number indicates that it is the number of a section detailed elsewhere.[6]
The dotted-decimal section-numbering scheme commonly used in scientific and technical documents is defined by International Standard ISO 2145.[7][8]
In HTML
The <section> tag may be used in semantic HTML to mark part of a webpage as a section.[9]
The <hr/> element originally represented a page-width horizontal rule, and now has the semantics of a "paragraph-level thematic break" which may be rendered in various ways.[10] In the Wikipedia markup language, it is represented as {{Hr}} and renders like this:
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