The Blogger <b:section> is a layout to nesting Blogger gadget <b:widget>. When we design a blogger template its make easier to manage a group of gadget by separate a gadget into the different section.
<b:section> Syntax and Attribute
BLOGGER XML LANGUAGE
<b:section cond='EXPRESSION'
class='STRING'
id='STRING'
name='STRING'
preferred='BOOLEAN'
showaddelement='BOOLEAN'
maxwidgets='NUMBER'>
</b:section>- Each <b:section> must placed in between the tags <body> and </body>.
- In HTML Rendering <b:section> replaced by tag <div> and contain attribute class, id and name.
- id must be unique string.
- BOOLEAN value is either of true, false, yes and no.
- name is the name shown in Layout Editor and rendered HTML page as an Attribute.
- showaddelement is statement may or not to add a Gadget in Layout Editor.
- maxwidgets define the maximum allowed number of widgets.
<b:section> Example
COMMON SECTION
<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar_bottom' name='Sidebar (Bottom)'>
</b:section>In the example above, <b:section> tags has no showaddelement statement, by default, the value is 'true' its mean in the Layout Editor, "Add Gadget" button will appear because we allowed adding a Gadget inside that section even we not declare it.