Favorite element!

by **mskinner** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:02 am

I have a few, but <fieldset> ranks very highly - with or without the new disabled attribute

by **Lima** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:41 pm

I chose the <blockquote> element. I like the name

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by **Le Sage** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:22 am

I would have chosen <video> as a future best-seller, but as Ogg/Vorbis/Theora were removed from the specs...

I'd say the docypte.

by **haka** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:08 am

I tended to <link> cause I can use external stylesheets with it, <a> and <div> are not bad, but a bit trivial. My favorite is <form> with it's whole range of interactivity.

by **Le Sage** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:28 am

Oops, forgot to introduce myself.
Hey, my name is Gilles - French - developer - webmaster of html5.fr.
Thanks for reading.

by **Pacoup** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:42 pm

<div>

Div boxes are everything.

by **Le Sage** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:10 am

Welcome Pacoup, you seem to have been quite busy recently in posting all these messages.

by **Pacoup** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:32 pm

Yup, and I'm French too! Lol. Actually I'm a Quebecer in Canada so it's not the same but my first language is French anyway.

Yes, I've just recently decided I would participate on HTML 5. I never was a partisan of the group, being the XML lover I am, XHTML 2 made more sense for me. But since the whoe industry is with HTML 5, I say, why not?

They must have a good reason. (That's what I'm discovering with pleasure...geez, that <article> tag lol, wow)

by **Le Sage** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:17 am

Well, there is still XHTML 5 for XHTML lovers (& IE - haters :wink:

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by **Pacoup** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:36 pm

Well, to that I say no. XHTML 5 would be a continuation of XHTML 1, which is half-bread enough already.

The reason, XHTML 5 probably won't make use of the real reason why people would wish to use XHTML 2 at all, which is, the modularity of XML and all the extensions that go around it.

Syntax is at play here, but a lot more has to do with how applications and other stuff are implemented than syntax alone. The extensions made possible via XML are a huge thing, as well as inovations from HTML 5 such as the canvas element are a huge thing.

So one of thing that I think defines why we should use HTML 5 in the future is how it goes a long way towards being easy to use to make web pages and web apps. XHTML 2 is XML based, and because of XML's construct, a web page might not be exactly at home there. However, XML is a no-question winner when it comes to information sharing such as RSS feeds, but everyone knows there's more than that on the web.

by **ariaul** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:17 am

nitro2k01 wrote:I'm a programmer, not a designer, so I'm gonna go for <script>!

I second that

Also like <hr> - to mark the output

by **phoebe** » Thu May 13, 2010 1:59 am

<html>, <head> and <body> because I use them on every webpage

by **lyosha** » Mon May 17, 2010 8:39 pm

phoebe wrote:<html>, <head> and <body> because I use them on every webpage

Those elements are actually optional when writing an HTML page (the tags are optional, the elements are still there when the HTML is parsed), and I usually omit them except for the opening <body> tag.

I don't know which is really my favorite element. Maybe <p> or <a> since I use them the most I think.

by **cappo** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 2:07 pm

for me, <center>

it helps me a lot

by **JAB Creations** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 4:30 pm

cappo, use the following CSS class...

Code: Select all: <div class="center"></div>

Code: Select all: .center {margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;}

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