HTML <time> Tag
Example
How to define a time and a date:
<p>We open at
<time>10:00</time> every morning.</p>
<p>I have a date on
<time datetime="2008-02-14 20:00">Valentines day</time>.</p>
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Definition and Usage
The <time> tag defines a human-readable date/time.
This element can also be used to encode dates and times in a machine-readable way so that user agents can offer to add birthday reminders or scheduled events to the user's calendar, and search engines can produce smarter search results.
Browser Support
The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the element.
| Element | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <time> | 6.0 | 9.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 11.1 |
Note: The <time> tag is not supported in Internet Explorer 8 and earlier versions.
Differences Between HTML 4.01 and HTML5
The <time> tag is new in HTML5.
Attributes
= New in HTML5.
| Attribute | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| datetime | datetime | Represent a machine-readable date/time of the <time> element |
Global Attributes
The <time> tag also supports the Global Attributes in HTML.
Event Attributes
The <time> tag also supports the Event Attributes in HTML.
Related Pages
HTML DOM reference: Time Object
Default CSS Settings
None.
