HTML5 Tag Reference

HTML5

HTML5 improves interoperability and reduces development costs by making precise rules on how to handle all HTML elements, and how to recover from errors.

Some of the new features in HTML5 are functions for embedding audio, video, graphics, client-side data storage, and interactive documents. HTML5 also contains new elements like <nav>, <header>, <footer>, and <figure>.

The HTML5 working group includes AOL, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, and many hundreds of other vendors.

Note: HTML5 is not a W3C recommendation yet!

To read about the HTML5 activities at W3C, please read our W3C tutorial.

Ordered Alphabetically

New : New tags in HTML5.

Tag	Description
<!--...-->	Defines a comment
<!DOCTYPE>	Defines the document type
<a>	Defines a hyperlink
<abbr>	Defines an abbreviation
<acronym>	Not supported in HTML5.
<address>	Defines an address element
<applet>	Not supported in HTML5.
<area>	Defines an area inside an image map
<article>New	Defines an article
<aside>New	Defines content aside from the page content
<audio>New	Defines sound content
<b>	Defines bold text
<base>	Defines a base URL for all the links in a page
<basefont>	Not supported in HTML5.
<bdo>	Defines the direction of text display
<big>	Not supported in HTML5.
<blockquote>	Defines a long quotation
<body>	Defines the body element
<br>	Inserts a single line break
<button>	Defines a push button
<canvas>New	Defines graphics
<caption>	Defines a table caption
<center>	Not supported in HTML5.
<cite>	Defines a citation
<code>	Defines computer code text
<col>	Defines attributes for table columns
<colgroup>	Defines groups of table columns
<command>New	Defines a command button
<datalist>New	Defines a dropdown list
<dd>	Defines a definition description
<del>	Defines deleted text
<details>New	Defines details of an element
<dfn>	Defines a definition term
<dir>	Not supported in HTML5.
<div>	Defines a section in a document
<dl>	Defines a definition list
<dt>	Defines a definition term
<em>	Defines emphasized text
<embed>New	Defines external interactive content or plugin
<fieldset>	Defines a fieldset
<figcaption>New	Defines the caption of a figure element
<figure>New	Defines a group of media content, and their caption
<font>	Not supported in HTML5.
<footer>New	Defines a footer for a section or page
<form>	Defines a form
<frame>	Not supported in HTML5.
<frameset>	Not supported in HTML5.
<h1> to <h6>	Defines header 1 to header 6
<head>	Defines information about the document
<header>New	Defines a header for a section or page
<hgroup>New	Defines information about a section in a document
<hr>	Defines a horizontal rule
<html>	Defines an html document
<i>	Defines italic text
<iframe>	Defines an inline sub window (frame)
<img>	Defines an image
<input>	Defines an input field
<ins>	Defines inserted text
<keygen>New	Defines a generated key in a form
<kbd>	Defines keyboard text
<label>	Defines a label for a form control
<legend>	Defines a title in a fieldset
<li>	Defines a list item
<link>	Defines a resource reference
<map>	Defines an image map
<mark>New	Defines marked text
<menu>	Defines a menu list
<meta>	Defines meta information
<meter>New	Defines measurement within a predefined range
<nav>New	Defines navigation links
<noframes>	Not supported in HTML5.
<noscript>	Defines a noscript section
<object>	Defines an embedded object
<ol>	Defines an ordered list
<optgroup>	Defines an option group
<option>	Defines an option in a drop-down list
<output>New	Defines some types of output
<p>	Defines a paragraph
<param>	Defines a parameter for an object
<pre>	Defines preformatted text
<progress>New	Defines progress of a task of any kind
<q>	Defines a short quotation
<rp>New	Used in ruby annotations to define what to show browsers that to not support the ruby element.
<rt>New	Defines explanation to ruby annotations.
<ruby>New	Defines ruby annotations
<s>	Defines text that is no longer correct
<samp>	Defines sample computer code
<script>	Defines a script
<section>New	Defines a section
<select>	Defines a selectable list
<small>	Defines small text
<source>New	Defines media resources
<span>	Defines a section in a document
<strike>	Not supported in HTML5.
<strong>	Defines strong text
<style>	Defines a style definition
<sub>	Defines subscripted text
<summary>New	Defines the header of a "detail" element
<sup>	Defines superscripted text
<table>	Defines a table
<tbody>	Defines a table body
<td>	Defines a table cell
<textarea>	Defines a text area
<tfoot>	Defines a table footer
<th>	Defines a table header
<thead>	Defines a table header
<time>New	Defines a date/time
<title>	Defines the document title
<tr>	Defines a table row
<tt>	Not supported in HTML5.
<u>	Not supported in HTML5.
<ul>	Defines an unordered list
<var>	Defines a variable
<video>New	Defines a video
<wbr>New	Defines a possible line-break
<xmp>	Not supported in HTML5.

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