Chapter 3. Getting Started with HTML5: Semantic Tags, Forms, and Drag and Drop

HTML5 is such a large set of standards and application programming interfaces (APIs) that it’s rare a developer would use every single one. We start by concerning ourselves with actual HTML elements, and this chapter covers the majority of new tags introduced in HTML5, which can be grouped into a few small feature sets.

The chapter begins with an important section on maintaining backward compatibility with the new HTML5 tags, then continues on to discuss HTML language differences ...

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