With
the introduction of HTML5, various new features have been added to the HTML
features which change the way elements are added to the page design and are
easy to implement. These new features of HTML5 have greatly advanced the way of
developing and designing websites and are also grabbing the attention as most
frequently asked question in HTML interview questions.
So, let's look at some of the most popular features which are new in HTML5:
1.
<!Doctype> Declaration : The
new HTML5 does not require to remember complex and long codes. Users can just
write the declaration and start the coding. It also makes the declaration
simple and the website pages can also be rendered in standard modes.
2. Self-Closing
Elements : In the previous version of HTML, some of the null elements were
required to be closed as well using the closing tags. However, with the
introduction of HTML5, some of the null elements given below can be omitted
with closing tags:
<br>
(for line breaks)
<hr>
(for a horizontal rule)
<img>
(for images)
Note
that the image contained by img tag is not its content, but an attribute of the
tag itself.
3.
New Structures : HTML5 has included
some of the new structures for defining the webpage. Some of such new
structures include:
<header>
which include the head section of page
<section>
including different sections on the page
<nav>
for including the navigations on the page
<footer>
which include the footer section of the page
<figure>
including the images integrated with the articles
<article>
which include the article or the primary content included on the page
<aside>
including the additional content over the page.
4.
New Form Types: Apart from standard
input types, some of the new form types are also added in HTML such as:
Month
Time
Datetime
Week
Date
Range
URL
Email
Well!
Do you see how our standard html has changed! Apart from these, there are
various other features that have been added with HTML5. If you want to know
about them in detail, you can go for Learn
HTML online.
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