Introduction to HTML5 part 1

HTML5



When writing HTML5 documents, one of the first new features that you'll notice is the doc type declaration:<!DOCTYPE HTML>
The character encoding (charset) declaration is also simplified:<meta charset="UTF-8">
New Elements in HTML5
<article>, <aside>, <audio>, <canvas>, <datalist>, <details>, <embed>, <footer>, <header>, <nav>, <output>, <progress>, <section>, <video>, and even more!
The default character encoding in HTML5 is UTF-8.

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