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New HTML5 form tags

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New HTML5 form tags

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- [Instructor] As of HTML5, we really only gained two new form elements, but we did gain a slew of attributes and new types of input elements. More on this soon. Here, we'll look at the two new HTML elements, they are Datalist and Output. The Datalist element not only allows the user to view a suggested list of values that appear in an associated input field, but the user can also type in their own values. Let's compare the Datalist to the Select element as they are somewhat related. Here I have a standard Select element, and this is going to give me a dropdown menu that would give the user options to choose any of these particular meal choice options. We're going to go ahead and we're going to create a Datalist so that we can see how these two elements differ. The first thing that we'll want to do here is we'll want to create an input type and then after that, we'll create the Datalist. So we're going to go ahead and…

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