HTML Category

Monday 12 September, 2011

HTML5: What’s New!

Whilst a lot is the same there are a couple of new tags that are making their debut in HTML5.  This article will explain some of the more prominent ones that you will no doubt encounter. <header> If you were previously in the habit of using <div id=”header”> in your sites, this new <header> tag will be [...]


Monday 12 September, 2011

HTML5: The Basic Semantic Structure

The idea with the release of HTML5 was to stop versioning HTML so that backwards compatibility is easier.  An example if a browser doesn’t recognise a tag it will simply use the tags which it does understand.  I’m not sure if this will work on not but at least W3C is trying to be progressive…. [...]


Sunday 11 September, 2011

HTML5 Forms: New Elements

The following are the new elements which are applicable to building forms in HTML5. If you haven’t already please also read the following blog articles related to HTML 5 forms: HTML5 Forms: Attributes HTML5 Forms: Input Types These are the new elements for HTML5 Forms: datalist – Contains a number of <option> elements with values [...]


Sunday 11 September, 2011

HTML5 Forms: Attributes

Top complement the new input types, there are a number of new attributes. If you didn’t read about the new input types available in HTML5 check out “HTML5 Forms: Input Types“.  These new attributes are handy for actions web developers often need. autocomplete – An option to turn off automatic form completion of values for [...]


Sunday 11 September, 2011

HTML5 Forms: Input Types

This blog entry covers some of the new input types which are available in HTML5.  There are still various incompatibility issues with web browsers (i.e. HTML5 is not supported yet).  If there are any issues with incompatibility the web browser will just default back to the regular <input type=”text”> element.  The web browser will not [...]


Saturday 05 February, 2011

Your first website in HTML

So a few day’s ago, I posted a quick and easy PHP tutorial. HTML is a vital part of using PHP, as it requires HTML in many parts. With this post, my aim is to give you a first look into HTML, and then over several day’s or even week’s I hope to write several [...]