The HTML5 specification, while not entirely finished, is
scheduled to be near completion sometime around the year 2020 or
2022 timeframe; however, currently most browsers do allow for
several attributes, semantic markup, and redefined elements and
these are just some of the changes that can be incorporated into
coding for web documents today. This segment will show and
demonstrate coding examples for empty attributes, attributes
with values, semantic markup samples, conforming examples, and
redefined elements. Previous posts in this series include: Let’s
get started with reviewing some of the ways attributes can be
used to set various properties of an element. There are four
different syntaxes that may be used for attributes and they are:
All four syntaxes may be used as explained in the HTML5
specification, and depending on what is needed for each specific
attribute. Empty: An empty attribute is one where the value has
been omitted; in other words, this is shorthand for specifying
the attribute with an empty