What’s new in HTML5

By | April 14, 2013
Most important thing about HTML 5 is that its now no longer part of SGML but its a language of its own. A number of new elements added as well as others removed or deprecated.There are lots of new features that requires a detailed article but here I am trying to focus on major ones.Free Online Test
1. First of all simplified doctype for html 5 is:
<!doctype html>
2. For the purpose of drawing graphics, new canvas element has been added.
3. New Structural as well as Media elements has been added.Structural -> Article, Command, Dialog, Summary, Progress etc.
Media -> Audio, Video, Track, Source etc.4. A number of new form elements has been added as follows:

  • datalist
  • datetime
  • keygen
  • output
  • datetime-local
  • date
  • month
  • week
  • time
  • number
  • range
  • email
  • url
5. A number of existing elements has been deprecated or removed. Most important is Iframe removal.
  • frame
  • frameset
  • noframes
  • applet
  • big
  • center
  • basefont

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