HTML5 features: what you need to know

Way back when we were laying pages out using the table element, we probably weren’t aware of semantics and standards. Nowadays, we’re using divs left right and centre. The situation isn’t terrible, because most of us are using semantic classes and ID naming conventions to describe what the function of the div is. Wouldn’t it just be better if we had a header and footer element instead? HTML5 gives us exactly that.

One of the biggest assets to us authors of HTML5 is the new semantic markup. There’s an arsenal of new elements that has been added to HTML5, and because of the ‘pave the cowpaths’ approach, these can be used by the browsers today (although some might need a little bit of prodding from JavaScript).

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