The <time> Element

New in HTML5Inline Text Semantics

The <time> element represents various kinds of dates, times, time-zone offsets, and durations. A machine-readable form of the date/time can be provided using the "datetime" attribute.

Attributes for <time>

Type	Attribute List
'Standard' Attributes	"writingsuggestions" and "datetime"
Obsolete Attributes	"pubdate"

Syntax Notes for <time>

• If the time element does not have a datetime attribute, then it must not have any element descendents.

Recommended Links

• CanIUse.com: Search <time> (browser compatibility information)
• CanIEmail.com: Search <time> (email client compatibility information)
• The <time> element should allow vague times ("March") and times from ancient history to be marked up
• HTML5 (WHATWG): time element
• MDN: <time>
• Quackit: HTML <time> tag

Search Engine Links (for more information)

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