What is New in HTML5?
The DOCTYPE declaration for HTML5 is very simple:
<!DOCTYPE html>
The character encoding (charset) declaration is also very simple:
<meta charset="UTF-8">
HTML5 Example:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Page Title</title> </head> <body> <h1>This is a Heading</h1> <p>This is a paragraph.</p> </body> </html>
The default character encoding in HTML5 is UTF-8.
New HTML5 Elements
The most interesting new HTML5 elements are:
New semantic elements like <header>, <footer>, <article>, and <section>.
New attributes of form elements like number, date, time, calendar, and range.
New graphic elements: <svg> and <canvas>.
New multimedia elements: <audio> and <video>.