Discussion on "10 useful HTML5 features, you may not be using"

Tapas Adhikary · 2020-08-14T13:43:14.675Z

HTML5 is not a new thing. We have been using several features of it since the initial release(January 2008). As part of #100DaysOfCode initiative, I have taken a close look at the HTML5 feature list again. See what I found? I haven't really used a bu...

Interesting! Thanks for sharing :)

Thanks for sharing. Some of them I didn't know existed.

Thanks Sarath! Glad, it was useful.

Cool... Thanks for sharing.

This is really amazing, thanks for sharing!

That's not how you access data-* attributes from Javascript. Use elm.dataset.foo

Yeah, I missed to incorporate that. Updated now.

Note: For reading the values of these attributes in JavaScript, you could use getAttribute() with their full HTML name(i.e, data-custom-attr) but, the standard defines a simpler way: using a dataset property.

Thanks for pointing out!

Tapas Adhikary You can, of course, access any HTML attribute with getAttribute(), however the 'dataset' property is what makes 'data-*' attributes special and much more convenient to use. Thanks for updating the article.

Very helpful article, I didn't know some of these existed!

Never knew these existed! Thanks for putting these together.

this really mind blowing.Never knew something like this existed, thanks for sharing

Woah! New things learnt . Thank you for this

Learned something new today! Thanks Tapas :)

P.S. Love the cover art!

Thanks, must of the features I had never seen before

I didn't know some of these existed indeed! 👏🏻

Rana Emad, me too before this week! 😃

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