Showing posts with label input types. Show all posts
Showing posts with label input types. Show all posts

Thursday, February 20, 2014

HTML5 Tips and Tricks for Developers


There is so much hype about HTML5 right now and its hard to know what is currently useful, what may become useful and what is best avoided for the time being. Here is a by-no-means-complete list of some helpful hints and tips for developers

Checking for HTML5 Input type support


Every time a web page is rendered in a browser, a DOM is created. This document object model represents all the HTML elements of the page. Every element is represented in the DOM by a different object. All DOM objects share a set of common properties but some objects have more than others. In browsers that support HTML5 certain objects will have unique properties. A quick look at the DOM will tell you which features are supported. There are 4 basic techniques for detecting individual features which will be discussed.

HTML5 Input types


HTML4 has many input types... HTML5 has many MORE...! This post will go through the new input types