How to make IE support HTML5

HTML5 is expected to be released in 2022, but I think it is not that far away from us, because html5gallery lists a large number of sites that are using HTML5, including of course my blog. Regarding HTML5, I have to mention IE. While mainstream browser manufacturers such as Apple, Google, Opera and Mozilla are actively participating in the formulation and promotion of new versions of HTML standards, Microsoft is dismissive of the HTML 5 specification. However, Microsoft has only recently stated that it will support HTML 5 in IE. As of today, IE8 and below cannot support HTML5 tags. But I found a way to make IE support HTML5 in sitepoint.

The following is an example displayed in IE 8, before processing:

To make IE (including IE6) support HTML5 elements, we need to add the following JavaScript to the HTML header. This is a simple document.createElement statement, using Conditional annotations create corresponding nodes in the object for IE.

After adding the above code, the effect displayed in IE8 is as follows:

The JavaScript code for creating nodes in the sitepoint example seems too bloated, and the code provided in smashingmagazine seems to be more concise.
Demo: http://blog.gulu77.com/demo/200908/html5_demo3.html

HTML5 behaves as inline elements by default. To layout these elements, we need to use CSS to manually convert them to Block elements, as shown below:


header, footer, nav, section, article {
display:block;

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