We are sure that you’ll agree that HTML is one of the best web inventions of all times. The hyper text markup language is actually the cornerstone of modern web that appears to be a unique and self-sufficient phenomenon.
When HTML5 was being developed its developers have faced the few important issues that were to be solved with the help of HTML5. And one of these problems was creating a really explicit and extensible semantics. Now the tricky part is that the old versions of HTML were also being designed with the versatility in mind – with loads of various tags that were considered absolutely essential but have eventually proved themselves to be totally useless. The approach in the HTML5 has been changed according to the needs of today’s Internet.
HTML5 New Tags
The task that had to be accomplished by the developers was to create the richer and meaningful semantics for HTML5 version – plus the fact that new solution was supposed to be flexible, strongly efficient and of course to correspond to all modern web standards. Now here comes the list of the new tags that will available in HTML5.
- <article> tag defines an article
- <aside> tag defines content aside from the page content
- <audio> tag defines sound content
- <canvas> tag defines graphics
- <command> tag defines a command button
- <datalist> tag defines a dropdown list
- <details> tag defines details of an element
- <dialog> tag defines a dialog (conversation)
- <embed> tag defines external interactive content or plugin
- <figure> tag defines a group of media content, and their caption
- <footer> tag defines a footer for a section or page
- <header> tag defines a header for a section or page
- <hgroup> tag defines information about a section in a document
- <keygen> tag defines a generated key in a form
- <mark> tag defines marked text
- <meter> tag defines measurement within a predefined range
- <nav> tag defines navigation links
- <output> tag defines some types of output
- <progress> tag defines progress of a task of any kind
- <rp> tag is used in ruby annotations to define what to show browsers that do not support the ruby element.
- <rt> tag defines explanation to ruby annotations.
- <ruby> tag defines ruby annotations.
- <section> tag defines a section
- <source> tag defines media resources
- <time> tag defines a date/time
- <video> tag defines a video
