HTML5 was the major revision that followed HTML 4.01. Today HTML has no version number. It is the HTML Living Standard maintained by the WHATWG, and "HTML5" now refers to a set of modern web technologies.
The main changes HTML5 brought over HTML 4.01:
- Semantic elements for page structure, such as
<header>,<footer>and<nav> <article>and<section>for marking up content- Native
<video>and<audio>elements, so media plays without plugins <canvas>for drawing, and<svg>support- New input types such as
email,dateandcolor - A
rangeinput for sliders - JavaScript APIs such as Geolocation, Web Storage and Web Workers
- A native Drag and Drop API
- Removal of deprecated tags like
<font>,<center>and<big>
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