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Overview and demos of HTML5 Forms input types, attributes and elements

Avatar photo By Robert Nyman [Editor emeritus]

Posted on August 16, 2011 in HTML

One of the major parts of HTML5 is offering new semantics for HTML code and also to ease the most common tasks for web developers and end users alike. Making forms easier and better is one of those main goals.

With HTML5 Forms we get things like:

  • New input types
  • New attributes
  • New elements

In HTML5 Forms input types, attributes and new elements – demos, tips and tricks all these are described together with code samples and demos to see how they work in your web browser and on your operating system/device, with a lot of hints and pointers what to think about.

Please take a look and explore the wonders of HTML5 Forms!

About Robert Nyman [Editor emeritus]

Technical Evangelist & Editor of Mozilla Hacks. Gives talks & blogs about HTML5, JavaScript & the Open Web. Robert is a strong believer in HTML5 and the Open Web and has been working since 1999 with Front End development for the web - in Sweden and in New York City. He regularly also blogs at http://robertnyman.com and loves to travel and meet people.

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7 comments

  1. Bronislav Klučka

    Hi,
    and when will FF support those elements/attributes? I mean some UI for those elements?

    August 17th, 2011 at 01:25

    1. Robert Nyman

      Bronislav,

      Sorry for a late reply. It is not decided yet, and is a work in progress.

      August 25th, 2011 at 00:02

  2. Brian

    I agree, it would be great if we could find out when FF will support all of the UI elements.

    Are there any that are planned not to be implemented?

    August 24th, 2011 at 08:45

    1. Robert Nyman

      Brian,

      To my knowledge I don’t know any that aren’t planned, but there’s no exact roadmap and they are constantly being evaluated.

      August 25th, 2011 at 00:03

  3. Martin

    It’s been a year … and Firefox 14 still does not support even the most basic input types (date anyone?), leaving us with suboptimal Javascript hell…

    Maybe it’s time to just give up on the Firepanda…

    August 23rd, 2012 at 04:45

  4. Piers Warmers

    Any updates to this?

    What’s the plan for better support of HTML5 input types?

    January 30th, 2013 at 22:02

    1. Robert Nyman [Editor]

      I’m sorry, i don’t have any more updates.

      January 31st, 2013 at 02:28

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