Web Design with HTML and CSS Digital Classroom
by Jeremy Osborn, Jennifer Smith, AGI Creative Team

Lesson 12: HTML5 Essentials
In this lesson, you will get an understanding of the different technologies related to HTML5. You’ll discover the new elements that are available to help build HTML5 pages, and you will also learn about modern browser support.
What you’ll learn in this lesson:
• Understanding key concepts of HTML5 markup
• Supporting technologies
• Evolving browser support
• Using HTML5
Starting up
This lesson does not use any lesson files, so you do not need to load any files before starting this lesson.
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Defining HTML5
HTML5 is a combination of new HTML markup tags, CSS3 properties, and JavaScript, as well as several supporting technologies that are connected to HTML5.
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HTML5 is marketed as a significant evolution in web design; however, it is more than just a new set of HTML tags. |
There is a difference between the HTML5 core and the HTML5 family. You can define the HTML5 core as ...

