New Tags in HTML 5

The new tags in HTML 5 are:

<article>

The article element contains the main theme(s) of an HTML document.

<aside>

The aside element is used for an HTML sidebar.

<audio>

<bdi> and <bdo>

The <bdi> tag (bi-directional isolation) isolates a span of text that might be formatted in a different direction from other text outside the bdi element. The <bdo> tag (bi-directional override) explicitly overrides the directionality property of the text within the bdo element.

<canvas>

The canvas element creates a two-dimensional drawing surface which can be used to draw images using 2-D drawing functions.

<command/>

<datalist>

The <datalist> tag is used to create a combo box input field with autocomplete in an HTML form.

<details>

<embed/>

The <embed> tag can be used to embed content from an external resource into a web page.

<figure>

The <figure> tag provides a container for content that is equivalent to a figure or diagram in a book.

<footer>

The <footer> tag is one of the HTML tags for headings and footers in HTML and contains the footer of a section.

<header>

<hgroup>

<keygen/>

<mark>

The <mark> tag can be used to temporarily highlight a fragment of text from another source that was not necessarily highlighted by the original author, such as the search terms that appear in search engine results.

<meter>

The <meter> tag is used for a gauge or other indicator, to display a value on a measurement scale with a specific maximum value.

<nav>

The <nav> tag is used to create a navigation section of a web page.

<output>

<progress>

<ruby>, <rt> and <rp>

The <ruby> tag is used to mark up base text which is to be annotated with supplemental text.

<section>

The <section> tag is used for a generic section in an HTML document.

<source>

The source tag identifies one possible source of the embedded audio or video media indicated by its parent tag.

<summary>

<time>

The <time> tag is used to display a time, Gregorian date, or date and time.

<u>

While the <u> tag was deprecated in 1997 HTML 4 and removed in the year 2000 W3C Recommendation, it has been added back in HTML 5.

<video>

<wbr/>

The <wbr/> tag can be used to specify additional places where the browser can do a line break if necessary.