5+ Must Know HTML Tags That Almost Nobody Knows

There are so many HTML tags that it is nearly impossible to know them all, which means there are tons of tags most people do not know. In this video I talk about the 5 coolest HTML tags that nearly nobody knows about.
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⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:35 - Fieldset
01:43 - Datalist
03:13 - Color Picker
04:11 - Progress Bar
04:52 - Open Graph
07:51 - Sub/Sup
09:18 - Picture
13:19 - Template
15:19 - Outro
#HTML #WDS #Top5HTML

[@_rcs]

I'm a C# dev who doesn't do too much front-end work. However, there is something about Kyle's content and delivery that is very enjoyable. He speaks so clearly and has a great approach to teaching new things.

[@quade-mc]

yeah same, I agree

[@richardplester]

Agreed fantastic teacher,!

[@kaptn_kage]

sweet humble brag bro

[@wilhallman2890]

concise, informative and to the point

[@jamesheffer3965]

Agreed, good video dude! And some interesting stuff too!

[@akalrove4834]

datalist blew my mind. I've been a developer for a long time and did not know this existed. thanks Kyle!

[@wilhallman2890]

Same here. I'll be throwing out most of my js autocomplete scripts now

[@denofsleep7946]

Ui

[@HomerJSimpson999]

datalist isn't shown in most tutorials since you rely again on user input that has to be validated. select is the way to go, datalist is useless

[@TheLegendaryShow]

you can't style them as you want with CSS and that's one of the main reasons it's underrated.

[@akalrove4834]

@@TheLegendaryShow thanks that makes sense

[@nirjalpaudel]

We need a tutorial on all information on meta tags

[@tochimclaren]

I second this!

[@KadeMackintosh]

Yes!

[@KeepLearing]

yes and no. I found that most of the time when you need to do something you can always get the answer off google. hence why there isn't much of these but yeah i'm def' not complaining as it def' clear things up a lot faster!

[@philippec4448]

Agreed

[@acidset]

@@KeepLearing it's more of a clear showcase, it brings more attention and ideas to unused tags

[@sharptakes1662]

this man dove deep into the documentation and emerged to tell us what he found

[@curtisbridges]

OG stands for "original gangsta" and you won't convince my brain to read those meta tags in any other way. 😂

[@sumanboi]

XDD true

[@kaagman49]

😂😂😂

[@kensleylewis]

yeah we don't mess with the original tags bruh. its like showing up to gun fight with a slinky.

[@rorymax]

@@aidanzyaire1780 damn that sounds toxic y’all should just break up

[@jrfrom617]

Looooooooool

[@BorlandC452]

Nice to see and get some love. They've been around since at least HTML 3.2. (FYI, they're sort for "subscript" and "superscript".) I really liked the tag. I think that might be just what I need for one of my projects.

[@isofruitfruit9357]

Aye, Template is a neat little addition. At work we're using server-side-rendering but want to display one particular section dynamically in a way that requires ajax requests with almost regular pings to the data-endpoint for more data. Given that I need to render a bunch of HTML via JS without access to a front-end-framework it is incredibly neat to be able to write this blueprint in html first and modify from there.

[@She1lby]

@@isofruitfruit9357 Wouldn't it be the same with just div + id?

[@isofruitfruit9357]

@@She1lby If you added a CSS rule that applies a "display:none" rule, I believe it might. Though you should also give id's to your templates to be able to differentiate them properly of course, if you have multiple. The great part about "template" is, that it is more easily understandable. You can have a section at the end of your HTML and just by looking at the name of the tag you can understand that. With the div you'd first need to read the tag name, read the class attribute, see the CSSclass that applies display none, realize it applies a display none rule and conclude from that that it's a template, maybe. With the template tag, communicating the intent for what it's there for is just simpler.

[@benedani9580]

Honestly I was like, "wait, people don't know and ?"

[@RubyPiec]

I teached one of my friends html and sub and sup were 2 of thoae things I teached them

[@andrillaf]

Good to know I’m not the only developer riddled with Webflow ads.

[@ethereal41]

ikr lmfao

[@bernardocapela3546]

Lmao

[@ShinAkuma]

If only I had known about the tag before, It could've saved me a few hundred lines of html in my Javascript code.

[@JelleVagasvau]

I might be mistaken but could you not just have used a normal div with a hidden parameter like . The only difference is you have to set hidden=false after you created the node.

[@KangJangkrik]

fyi Vue framework use that a lot

[@tochimclaren]

@@KangJangkrik just noticed it. I thought it was some kind of Vue voodoo magic 🤣🤣

[@KangJangkrik]

@@tochimclaren magic is just an unknown science :)

[@MrAfusensi]

@@KangJangkrik lol I genuinely thought it was a vue component

[@qurquru]

After watching this i successfully rewrote an entire component of mine using datalist and it’s so much easier to read! Thanks for always delivering awesome content.

[@kohlod]

The picture tag was like gold for me Thanks for your nice work, Kyle

[@sarvagya-sharma]

That template tag is so awesome! I am definitely going to use it in my projects!

[@MichaelCMain-zr3wb]

I'm just sitting here clawing at my arm thinking "CLOSE THAT H5 TAG FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!" But wow! I didn't know a lot of these things. Color picker is cool.

[@sovietwarmachine1979]

Sub and Sup are pretty old school, learned those when I got into HTML (3.2 was the standard at that time), but the datalist is quite impressive! Wish they'd let us style form elements better

[@montebont]

That is exactly the reason why I don't use datalist and similar options: they are very hard to style properly and consistently.

[@williamthomas2823]

You could use a stylesheet and add a class to the form element then add an individual class attribute to each element within the form and style individually but to be honest I am only a learner so some may have a more efficient solution 😅

[@Wakedaddy87]

One of the biggest things I have to say about watching this video (and other videos) is the fact that Kyle points out how the usage of these different elements affect screen readers. Thank you for being such a big advocate of Accessibility and making sure that we are experienced (or myself as a novice) Front End Developers are making sure that we consider Accessibility in our design and development more. As a side note, if you haven't already done so, it might be interesting to compile a list of these different items and how Front End Developers can use them to help in making our sites more accessible.

[@iqwebserve3973]

Kyle, I have 20+ years as a Web Dev... You are very talented Sir, thank you. You get to the point quickly and explain easily so I do not need to search elsewhere when refreshing materials. Thank you again.

[@webossd]

Dude, I love your channel! You know why? Sometimes I have something to work out. Some things we just don't know where and how to find a solution. And your channel just appear with the perfect solution. Thanks man!

[@CodingNuggets]

I see the last video did great for you about what almost nobody knows. Numbers don't lie. Appreciate you Kyle. See you soon!

[@WebDevSimplified]

Thanks. I actually had this video recorded before even releasing the last video video, but since they did so well I already am working on a part 2 for the JS video since I had around 15 items listed originally when making the first video.

[@CodingNuggets]

@@WebDevSimplified I figured it did well. These formats always seem to catch on. Nice when you find something that sticks. Definitely interesting and looking forward to seeing more!

[@169chaitanyakharche6]

@@WebDevSimplified why dont you have an instagram??

[@FunkySpunkyJunky]

I've used a few times. Really useful for putting the st / nd / rd / th into 1st 2nd 3rd 4th etc. (The "superscript ordinals").

[@MohdKaif-zn3nk]

I think you forgot about Marquee tag is used for moving text We can control marquee from the following attribute Behaviour= controles the behavior (Scroll,slide, alternative) Scrollamount controls speed (Max value is 50) Direction controls direction (Up,down,left,right)

[@milannesic5718]

That tag was deprecated dude

[@williamsanchez4766]

😅

[@CyberAbyss007]

Thank you! I've just picked up a 15 year old PHP medical web app that needs to be updated. Your type=time tip caught me at the exact moment I needed it. Great content! :-)

[@user-xh5pk5ze8n]

I use the template tag when i deal with arrays of objects. You can do a forEach loop or map over the array and for each object clone the template and set the content.

[@AndreaDragotta]

Thanks for this overview! I already knew most of them, but not the datalist one. It looks very promising!

[@barsaslan459]

Your videos always show me new things man keep up the good work 👌🏼

[@avgoustinos92]

I remember when I found out about the picture tag.... I was amazed on how much it saved time and make everything more clean and faster

[@gabcompaore8263]

Hi ! I just discovered your video on KZbin. As a beginner and passionate of coding (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) I really love to see your movie and how simply you have been explaining some useful HTML tags. Like how to write the chemical formula of water (H2O) and others. Briefly how to write something with the exponentiation mark. Also learning how to create and sizing the progress button tag, creating forms with the divs and stocking data and especially the og (Open Graph) system of stocking data between the .... tag, all those learnings have been useful for me. Thank you so much. Sorry for my poor english because I am a Franco but trying to get improved in english and then be able to more understand coding. Be blessed for what you are doing and sharing your knowledges. I appreciated.

[@btm1]

I did not know about the picture and template tags, quite useful thanks!

[@md.siddiq7165]

These tags seemed to be pretty useful. I will definitely try them out. Thanks Kyle ❤️

[@Pumpkinpie718]

This is great for accessibility! (Fieldset and Legend)

[@anjanobalesh8046]

The template tag is awesome I needed that functionality but didn't know what to use .. Thanks

[@davidbuchan2909]

Datalist is exactly what I want. I was looking on mdn yesterday for this exact thing but couldn't find it. Cheers dude.

[@orangeprogrammer]

Great content! I really like Fieldset, Datalist and Templates! Please make more videos like this one. Valuable!

[@armoreddragon3760]

This is an excellent video! I am very happy about the existence of the "progress" element.

[@MrFoghorn111]

This might be my favorite of your videos yet.

[@frederikadmiralshi4080]

My OCD cannot handle that you didn’t close off that H5 tag...

[@brayanasaelayalalopez1755]

XD

[@scheimong]

I used to write xhtml and not closing his h5 was giving me migrains.

[@kaptn_kage]

same, so I reported him

[@jasonmarkson3773]

LOL same here

[@davitharutyunyan8330]

@Eris Socratou lol tag doesn't close

[@CodeWithTomi]

Nice one! Loving your tips

[@anmolsharma477]

Inspired by your work and the way you explain things...

[@montebont]

The tag looks very promising and indeed more useful than templates in PHP or JS. Thanks for sharing!

[@patrycjaadamczyk4521]

Datalist blew my mind! Thanks for this video

[@vishant898]

I used some tag in my code but I completely understand after watched this video Thanks Kyle

[@darkmojojojo]

I knew about fieldset and legend but datalist was completely new to me. Thanks!

[@zealot4325]

Thank you a lot for this video. I have some kind of frustration about tags to use on my test pages. With all the stuff you have shown I already made something to work with/

[@reyanrahman]

I have wasted so many hours coding the stuff for which I could have easily used html can u upload more content like these

[@yousif2712]

is another underrated tag.

[@nataliegrayhandle]

I knew i wasnt hallucinating

[@jeesimplified]

Keep on uploading more such videos, This one was of immense use.

[@corey33ism]

Very informative, I didn’t know about a some of those. Thank you!

[@computer_toucher]

I recently discovered the word break tag in combination with the soft hyphen "­" which is fantastic when you need absolute control of where a word breaks -- with a lot of compound words like in German, this is sometimes super important. But for an easy example, if you were tight on space you could break down "cowboy" with "cow­boy" so when a flex wraps it breaks thusly: cow- boy And the soft hyphen of course only inserts a hyphen when the word breaks. Modern HTML 5 is so much better than what we had to deal with in the old days, I tell ya

[@cmyk8964]

Actually, only one of them is necessary. is a word break opportunity, and you can do neat stuff with it in RTL text, but adding hypnenation opportunities can be done with just ­.

[@amisner2k]

This was actually incredibly informative. Thanks for sharing. 👍🏆

[@huzzderprogrammer5318]

Great one man! As always

[@jayjani740]

Now, there are 2 KYLEs ruling Web. You were awesome as always. 😊 Thanks Kyle

[@GuRuGeorge03]

Oh the template tag is neat. I used that in a form editor where a user can create his own form by clicking it together and I basically used this exact thing u showcase, but because i didn't know about the template tag, I used regular divs with style display none ^^

[@ArtwithAmarBrisco]

Since I work in accessibility I used these all the time including others that most developers don’t use. Because most developers use just what is needed and JavaScript. Html5 has a great bunch of features as well as the from element types. Meta tags work just like meta data and I have used them all the time when developing for Wordpress but you have to be careful of how you use them when in comes to accessibility because it can impact how the page is parsed and read. Being around development for almost 20 years there are a ton of tags I have seen or used that most developers probably has or never will use.

[@jwf3148]

Geez Louise - you just changed my life significantly !!! Wow !!! Thaaaaaank you !!!

[@LorenHelgeson]

Thanks, Kyle. I was under the impression that legend and fieldset were phased out with HTML5. Haven't used either in a long time.

[@shubhamkohli7719]

This is really helpful thank you so much for this video ❤️

[@JustinTheVlogger]

Thanks for this video bro! It really helps me a lot, I learned a new knowledge about HTML and I will surely use those tags to my future projects.

[@adamoceallaigh2267]

That sub , sup and datalist actually could’ve saved my bacon so much times 😂😂 , amount of times I made my own tag called little for the one which goes above in h20 and used absolute to position 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️. Kyle honestly these are immense , cheers man 🤝

[@olivierabilio8470]

I didn't know some of these tags. Thanks very much for this tutorial.

[@elementiro]

Well, most of them are new, but and are basics if you started learning HTML back when CSS wasn't that widespread.

[@lacikawiz8369]

Super useful stuff! I saved it to my reference videos :)

[@2010appra]

Great piece of knowledge...thanks...and happy to see more upcoming videos

[@thunderiegacha9117]

now I have the mega scene to surprise my teachers, THIS IS MEGA HELPFUL

[@markvador6667]

Well done dude, awesome tricks

[@InstaSound]

Kinda proud I've used all of them except for datalist in the past. Once I mastered that one as well, I can finally put "HTML Programming Expert" on my resumee 😎

[@KeepLearing]

omg, the algorithms are so smart!! How does it know to give me this video?!! I've literally just finished all my studies for software development and now I have to do the test which consist of 40 random multiples questions out of 120 and mainly based on front end (HTML and CSS). I don't know why HTML and CSS as I am actually more back end based on programming languages. But yeah i have no choice but to pass it anyway. i get unlimited practices where most of these came up!! I'm so glad I found videos like these but TBH front ends are definitely easier than back end. Guess you could say it's good to know both!

[@shgysk8zer0]

I've known about all those for many years now. Back when I was starting to learn web development I went through each and every element on MDN, and all but picture were there at the time. I think and are the elements too few developers know about.

[@artzoc]

Was just about to write a comment about the details tag (`details>summary` if emmet's there), but here you did it long time ago. Greetings!

[@wilhallman2890]

Actually taught this Old Dog some new tricks! very good video

[@TechTubeTamilNadu]

11:14 how you add in shortcut?

[@mrsonly6944]

If I'm right, its Ctrl + / Edit: I tested here and its Ctrl + ; to me

[@GuRuGeorge03]

Amazing, I will use the fieldset+ legend in the forms that I have to make in an ECM where only html is possible

[@mraravind1111]

Fieldset and the datalist are my favorites.

[@synaikido]

You are awesome! Very nice video and explanations as usual 🙂

[@StevenGerritsenPlus]

Really awesome video. But the picture tag you have to look at another time. Picture is for different images for different formats, like portrait for mobile and landscape for desktop. The img tag also supports srcSet and that is for automatic resolution switching. Like 100x200 for mobile and the same image 500x1000 for desktop.

[@erumabo]

I've never used or seen this tags before so I thought that maybe the support was quite limited or something but some of them are supported from the beginning, so I'm gonna add them to my tool set immediately

[@chtulurr]

This channel is crazy good

[@DustinSpain]

I really like your videos. It is impressive that you can make coding so entertaining.

[@fivebyfivesound]

Wow, thanks for this! I’m seeing notes that some of these tags are necessary supported across browsers. A great follow-up video could be detailing what works where...or we could do it the old-fashioned way and learn trial end error 😄

[@WebDevSimplified]

I'm pretty sure all the elements listed in this video have very good browser support. You can use the site caniuse.com to check the most up to date information on this

[@fivebyfivesound]

@@WebDevSimplified thanks so much!

[@williamandreano6494]

Great video Kyle! Just came across your channel for the first time today and subscribed. What text editor are you using?

[@lonewolf1461]

This is awesome stuff, thank you very much!

[@mountainscott5274]

Templates are an integral of Salesforce development. Thanks for the showing how they are used outside that proprietary context!

[@tommylin5467]

As an 18 years embedded system engineer, I find these front end tutorial fascinating since I always have trouble working with them.

[@bmejia220]

Very useful content. Thanks, Kyle!

[@slappy_chimp]

I needed this thank you :)

[@gr8zaheer]

You should make an firebase + angular realtime database Your explanation is fabulous

[@AndreaDragotta]

Template tag is really awesome. You can also create it from javascript, set the inner Html using a string and then copy the content as html. That actually allows you to create complex html elements from strings, very powerful if used alongside the new es6 string template literals!!

[@toddgilbey3979]

It would be powerful if it actually worked.

[@AndreaDragotta]

@@toddgilbey3979 it does work, although of course won't be the same as react components since it's not reactive. You have to clone the node children, but once you know how to use it it's not too cumbersome 🙂

[@poldragon458]

Btw in your template section the text you typed was this: This is a template Hi But your last h5 code line wasn't with a /

[@jayjani740]

html sometimes renders weirdly. Don't worry about it, man. Just focus on the CONECPT and EXPLANATION. Were awesome by Kyle.

[@ChrisAthanas]

There's always one... I'm checking out your tutorials HP... Oh wait you don't have any

[@manbirjudge8415]

I also noticed that!

[@minocs]

HTML is a markup language. The syntax doesn't need to be perfect in this small example lol

[@poldragon458]

@@ChrisAthanas o wait, mabey I HAVE to make video on things EVERY html KZbinr made something on called don't say something is wrong while you are making a mistake yourself, even tho it's a small mistake

[@christianhelwig]

This was great. Cheers Kyle

[@LeFede]

Thank you for existing

[@aj_ajayjain]

I recently transformed an input box to the searchable drop-down using complex ta, html and css ! I wish I would have seen this earlier.

[@jackwright7014]

Quick additional one for the comment section: this text is wrapped with quotes And because it's a HTML tag, it changes based off of what your localisation is.

[@liveconcerts696]

Hi Kyle thanks for making so much efforts for us

[@dev_el1277]

template seems like the pure html version of a react component. Neat.

[@sahajranipa]

Please make some videos about JavaScript animations along with some complex ones like scrolling animations etc and by the way awesome videos from you man as always keep it up the awesome work man god bless you and us as well.

[@dilipsingh6990]

YOU ARE A LEGEND BRO!

[@apekshitsonawane8378]

Keep it up bro and thank you!!!!

[@cosplay-in-a-nutshell]

Dude.....this is great! Thanks for sharing. Isn't the IT community the best when it's about sharing info?

[@wayneflame4483]

Nice video bro I've learned a lot more here

[@mamunhossain2030]

Please do make a comprehensive video on meta tags. I often get confused when i have to work with meta tags.

[@TeranoUmbys]

Remember that you should use FOR/ID to link the label to the form field. Explicit links will help screen readers, they aren’t that good at implying the labels from DOM position.

[@prajkeny4677]

this is first sited man who are fully normal person i meen not blind but u care about screen reader things thanks so much friend

[@tanthokg]

Your video is so helpful, thank you

[@thekwoka4707]

Manually defining media queries in a picture element should be only for when the content of the image changes, and multiple sources in the srcset is for responsiveness in terms of pixels. The media query is based on css pixels but the srcset w is based on device pixels. So you can put two sources with source sets on different media queries to handle layouts, but then have each with 5 or 10+ images in them more maximum responsiveness.

[@arghyabasu9329]

I knew legend only. Great video♥