Changes in HTML 5 - <area> Tag
What's new in HTML 5
The hreflang
, media
and rel
attributes have been added for consistency with the <link> tag.
The target
attribute, which was removed from HTML 4 and XHTML, has been resurrected in HTML 5.
Differences between HTML 5 and earlier versions of HTML
The 2000-2010 Recommendations from the W3C HTML Working Group defined the HTML namespace for the area element type name along with the names of all HTML element types. In older versions of HTML, element type names were not associated with a namespace.