Posts Tagged ‘Markup’

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 [...]