Changes in HTML 5 - <input> Tag

What's new in HTML 5

New input types:

• <input type="color" .../>
• <input type="date" .../>
• <input type="datetime" .../>
• <input type="datetime-local" .../>
• <input type="email" .../>
• <input type="month" .../>
• <input type="number" .../>
• <input type="range" .../>
• <input type="search" .../>
• <input type="tel" .../>
• <input type="time" .../>
• <input type="url" .../>
• <input type="week" .../>

A new set of attributes have been added which can be used to override various attributes on the <form> tag.

In addition, the autocomplete="autocomplete", autofocus="autofocus", form, list, max, min, multiple="multiple", pattern, placeholder, required="required" and step attributes have been added.

Differences between HTML 5 and earlier versions of HTML

The following attributes should not be coded on the <input> tag because they either have been deprecated or were never officially supported:

• align
• ismap - use the <img> tag and its ismap attribute instead
• usemap - use the <img> tag and its usemap attribute instead
• valign

The 2000-2010 Recommendations from the W3C HTML Working Group defined the HTML namespace for the input element type name along with the names of all HTML element types. In older (pre-2000) versions of HTML, element type names were not associated with a namespace.