Interesting things about HTML5

If you are one of the countless developers that are now publishing applications using HTML5 or XHTML5 then you have to know about a few new syntax options. Some of these are pretty interesting and are shortcuts for development.

DOCTYPE:
DOCTYPEs in older versions of HTML were longer because the HTML language required a reference to a DTD (document type declaration)

Usage:

All the above syntax IS case-insensitive.

Character Encoding:
HTML 5 authors can use simple syntax to specify Character Encoding as follows:

All the above syntax IS case-insensitive.

The script tag:
It’s common practice to add a “type” attribute with a value of “text/javascript” to script elements as follows:

HTML 5 removes extra information required and you can use simply following syntax:

The tag:
So far you were writing as follows:

HTML 5 removes extra information required and you can use simply following syntax:

Elements:
HTML5 elements are marked up using open and closing tags.

The difference between open tags and closing tags is that the closing tag includes a slash before the tag name.

Following is the example of an HTML5 element:

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HTML5 tag names are case insensitive and may be written in all uppercase or mixed case, although the most common convention is to stick with lowercase.

Most of the elements contain some content like

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. Some elements, however, are forbidden from containing any content at all and these are known as void elements. For example, br, hr, link and meta etc.

Here is a complete list of HTML5 Elements.

HTML5 Attributes:
Elements may contain attributes that are used to set various properties of an element.

Some attributes are defined globally and can be used on any element, while others are defined for specific elements only. All attributes have a name and a value.

Following is the example of an HTML5 attributes which illustrates how to mark up a div element with an attribute named class using a value of “example”:

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Attributes may only be specified within start tags and must never be used in end tags.

HTML5 attributes are case insensitive and may be written in all uppercase or mixed case, although the most common convention is to stick with lowercase.

HTML5 Document:
The following tags have been introduced for better structure:

section: This tag represents a generic document or application section. It can be used together with h1-h6 to indicate the document structure.

article: This tag represents an independent piece of content of a document, such as a blog entry or newspaper article.

aside: This tag represents a piece of content that is only slightly related to the rest of the page.

header: This tag represents the header of a section.

footer: This tag represents a footer for a section and can contain information about the author, copyright information, et cetera.

nav: This tag represents a section of the document intended for navigation.

dialog: This tag can be used to mark up a conversation.

figure: This tag can be used to associate a caption together with some embedded content, such as a graphic or video.

The markup for an HTM 5 document would look like the following:

   
   


  
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