Title: HTML5 in WordPress themes
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# HTML5 in WordPress themes

 *  Resolved [Guido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guido07111975/)
 * (@guido07111975)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-in-wordpress-themes/)
 * Hi,
 * I would like to know if there’s a list available of all HTML 5 tags used in WordPress
   theme development.
 * For example, the ‘article’ tag is used in the comments listing.
    So if my theme
   does not support the ‘article’ tag, my comments may not be displayed properly
   in older browsers.
 * Guido

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-in-wordpress-themes/#post-5594512)
 * I’m not sure what you mean, why would this be specific to WordPress. WordPress
   doesn’t limit the use of HTML.
 *  Thread Starter [Guido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guido07111975/)
 * (@guido07111975)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-in-wordpress-themes/#post-5594518)
 * Hi,
 * At first my themes did not support the article tag and because of that the comments
   did not list properly in older browsers.
 * So I added this in my functions file:
 *     ```
       function themename_html5() {
       	echo '<!--[if lt IE 9]>'. "\n";
       	echo '<script src="' . esc_url( get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/ie.js' ) . '"></script>'. "\n";
       	echo '<![endif]-->'. "\n";
       	}
       add_action( 'wp_head', 'themename_html5' );
       ```
   
 * And added this in the ie.js file:
 *     ```
       document.createElement('article');
       ```
   
 * And now comments do list properly in older browsers.
 * I would like to have a list, so I don’t forget tags.
 * That’s what I mean.
 * Guido
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-in-wordpress-themes/#post-5594521)
 * Just load in modernizr’s CSS file instead [http://modernizr.com/](http://modernizr.com/)
 *  Thread Starter [Guido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guido07111975/)
 * (@guido07111975)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-in-wordpress-themes/#post-5594525)
 * Edit: I guess this (function themename_html5 and file ie.js) is not necessary,
   when I style all those html5 tags in my css file?
 * Guido
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-in-wordpress-themes/#post-5594526)
 * Oh sorry, it’s modernizr JS file you want. I’d recommend you use a third party
   for this. You don’t want to be updating your theme every time a new html5 tag
   comes out/ becomes redundant.
 *  Thread Starter [Guido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guido07111975/)
 * (@guido07111975)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-in-wordpress-themes/#post-5594544)
 * Maybe a stupid question, do I really need your or my script for html5 support
   in older browsers? Or is adding styling of these tags in my stylesheet sufficient?
 * Guido
 *  Thread Starter [Guido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guido07111975/)
 * (@guido07111975)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-in-wordpress-themes/#post-5594719)
 * Yeah, it was a stuped question: IE 8 (and older) don’t recognize html5 tags.
 * _The problem with IE8 and lower browsers is that they were created years ago 
   before any of the new HTML5 tags were invented so it can’t support them. _
 * Closing this.
 * Guido

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