HTML 5 Tag Reference
HTML 5
HTML 5 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 HTML 5 are functions for embedding audio, video, graphics, client-side data storage, and interactive documents.
HTML 5 also contains new elements like <nav>, <header>, <footer>, and <figure>.
The HTML 5 working group includes AOL, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, and many hundreds
of other vendors.
Note: HTML 5 is not a W3C recommendation yet!
To read about the HTML 5 activities at W3C, please read our
W3C tutorial.
Ordered Alphabetically
New : New tags in HTML 5.
| Tag |
Description |
| <!--...--> |
Defines a comment |
| <!DOCTYPE> |
Defines the document type |
| <a> |
Defines a hyperlink |
| <abbr> |
Defines an abbreviation |
| <acronym> |
Not supported in HTML 5. |
| <address> |
Defines an address element |
| <applet> |
Not supported in HTML 5. |
| <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 HTML 5. |
| <bdo> |
Defines the direction of text display |
| <big> |
Not supported in HTML 5. |
| <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 HTML 5. |
| <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 HTML 5. |
| <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 HTML 5. |
| <footer>New |
Defines a footer for a section or page |
| <form> |
Defines a form |
| <frame> |
Not supported in HTML 5. |
| <frameset> |
Not supported in HTML 5. |
| <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 HTML 5. |
| <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> |
Not supported in HTML 5. |
| <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 HTML 5. |
| <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 HTML 5. |
| <u> |
Not supported in HTML 5. |
| <ul> |
Defines an unordered list |
| <var> |
Defines a variable |
| <video>New |
Defines a video |
| <xmp> |
Not supported in HTML 5. |
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