How does Chrome detect the main content to show in Reader mode?

Question

On every website I build, Chrome is unable to to detect reader mode. I've looked at all other websites, for which Chrome does show reader mode, and I haven't be able to understand what makes Chrome detect the main content.

Any advice?

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Any advice?

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Naveen MC · Accepted Answer

May be with semantic html tags

Siavosh Zarrasvand · Answer

@mcnaveen This solved it, not the section tag but the Article tag. It made all the difference.

Naveen MC · Answer

I should have posted in detail

Szymon Rączka · Answer

It's off topic comment 😅 How can I contact you as you left me intrigued about your hosting solution and I would love to find out what it is about. 🙂

Siavosh Zarrasvand · Answer

Your answer was good enough, thank you!

Szymon Rączka · Answer

No worries man. It happens to all of us.

Naveen MC · Answer

Cool

Siavosh Zarrasvand · Answer

Dude, horribly sorry, I lost the notification. Able to connect on Twitter? Apologies again, really shit behaviour but not intentional.

Siavosh Zarrasvand · Answer

I did try that, but it didn't work. Maybe it was because I tested on localhost. Either way, I'll use semantic tags going forward as that is the better approach.

Go to Homepage	`g` `h`
Go to Done Todos	`g` `d`
Go to Questions	`g` `q`
Compose a New Todo	`n`
Go to Search	`/`
Show this dialog	`?`

How does Chrome detect the main content to show in Reader mode?

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