Much like HTML 4, HTML 5 will take a long time likely before being adopted online, but why not get a jump start on coding in it today.

If your a beginner to HTML 5, and you understand HTML 4. You probably code everything with div tags.

“5” simplifies the div to have a name. At first I was thinking why would you want to ever do this, but then I considered most of the time if you get thrown into a project if ever site uses the name nav that would simplify the process of looking through style sheet to see what id’s or classes do.

Saving you valuable coding time.

<nav><a href=”home.html”>Home page</a><a href=”about.html”>About HTML5</a></nav>

To set the CSS styles on a nav tag you simply just use a style like this:

nav a,nav a:hover{
font-size:14px;
font-family:Verdana;
color:#000000;
}


Example Below

This Navigation uses the HTML 5 nav tag

* Please note this will only display correctly using Mozilla or Chrome.

IE doesn’t support these features yet.