HTML 5
HTML 5 improves interoperability and reduces development costs by making precise rules on how to handle all HTML elements, and how to recover from errors.
Some of the new features in HTML 5 are functions for embedding audio, video, graphics, client-side data storage, and interactive documents. HTML 5 also contains new elements like
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The HTML 5 working group includes AOL, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, and many hundreds of other vendors.
Tag Description
Defines a comment
Defines the document type
Defines a hyperlink
Defines an abbreviation
Not supported in HTML 5.
Defines an address element
Not supported in HTML 5.
Defines an area inside an image map
New Defines an article
New Defines content aside from the page content
New Defines sound content
Defines bold text
Defines a base URL for all the links in a page
Not supported in HTML 5.
Defines the direction of text display
Not supported in HTML 5.
Defines a long quotation
Defines the body element
Inserts a single line break
Defines a push button
New Defines graphics
Defines a table caption
Not supported in HTML 5.
Defines a citation
Defines computer code text
Defines attributes for table columns
Defines groups of table columns
New Defines a command button
New Defines a dropdown list
Defines a definition description
Defines deleted text
New Defines details of an element
Defines a definition term
Not supported in HTML 5.
Defines a section in a document
Defines a definition list
Defines a definition term
Defines emphasized text
New Defines external interactive content or plugin
Defines a fieldsetNew Defines the caption of a figure element
New Defines a group of media content, and their caption
Not supported in HTML 5.
New Defines a footer for a section or page