New HTML 5 Tags To Familiarize Yourself With
It is expected to find new elements and additions to any upgraded version of a program or software. The same holds true for HTML 5 as there are a number of new HTML 5 tags you will find. The latest version improves interoperability while reducing the development costs simply by making precise rules on how to handle all of the different HTML elements.
There are new features for several different elements with the World Wide Web language. Some of the new features are used for embedding audio, video, graphics, client-side data storage, and interactive documents. In addition, you will find new elements like <nav>, <header> and <footer>.
You will find over 100 new HTML 5 tags to take advantage of with the revision. Some of the new tags you will find help to define a comment, document type, hyperlink, an article, a body element and much more.
As mentioned, there are several new tags that will help define entertainment features as well. Some of the new tags within this area include <video>, <img> for an image, <canvas> to describe graphics, and <audio> to define sound content. With more and more web sites applying video and audio to their web pages, it is imperative you recognize and understand these tags.
With over 100 different tags added to the revised HTML, it can take some time to become completely familiar with all of the new HTML 5 tags. There are certainly some that will become more popular than others; especially for your particular niche. The key is recognizing the tags that you use most and familiarizing yourself with as many as possible that will be associated with your business.
Find a list of all supported Tags here…
4 Responses
3.7.2011
The new html5 search input tag, I have read manuals, searched the forums and can find no way of making the new search tag work (even in Opera). Every one bangs on about styling the search field but give no reference on how to make it search a website. All resources quote this:-
Has anybody managed to make it search a website?
3.7.2011
Oh! the markup was removed from my response when I submitted it.
3.7.2011
The markup was:
< form >
< input name=”q” type=”search”>
< input type=”submit” value=”find”>
< /form >
Adrian West
3.30.2011
Adrian, The reason you have not been able to get those tags to work is most likely because you have not been using a fully HTML5 compliant browser. For example using firefox4 beta some HTML5 tags still were not operating correctly. Same goes for the recent Opera beta release.
Firefox 4 has now been fully released and the search tags are working as expected. You could also try using IE9 which is also fully HTML5 compliant however just like previous IE versions some unexpected anomalies seem to occur in the rendering. (Microsoft will never get it right it seems on the browser front :p)