Section

The full-width band, and the outermost one is the page's container boundary — background, clip, and the guide overlay. Spacing lives on the Stack inside it.

Each example measures itself, so its gutters are to scale rather than to the page's. The arrangements are exact.

PropDescriptionDefaultControl
aselement to render: section by default, or header, nav, aside, footer, article, divsectiondivheadernavasidefooterarticlesection
  • section
  • div
  • header
  • nav
  • aside
  • footer
  • article
aria-labelthe band's accessible name. Set it when the band is a landmark: an unnamed section or nav is not one
bga background for the band, from the colour rolesnonesurface-1surface-2surface-3bgbg-overlaynone
  • none
  • surface-1
  • surface-2
  • surface-3
  • bg
  • bg-overlay
clipclip content to the band. Off lets content overlap the band's edgetrue
queryContainerfor a nested band that stands alone (a card, a demo): spacing and breakpoints inside it measure this band, not the page. Nothing inside then aligns with the rest of the pagefalse
showGuidesdraw the layout guide overlay, for developmentfalse