HTML datetime attribute

Last update on August 19 2022 21:51:12 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

datetime

The purpose of the HTML datetime attribute is to specify the date and time of a change occurred in an HTML document.

Supported elements

HTML datetime attribute supports del and ins element.

Syntax

<ElementName data="value" >.....</ElementName>

Where ElementName is any supported element.

Type of value

datetime.

Value

A datetime value.

Default value

There is no default value of HTML datetime attribute.

Supported doctypes

HTML 4.01 strict, HTML 4.01 transitional, HTML 4.01 frameset.

Example of HTML datetime attribute with ins and del

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Example of HTML datetime attribute with ins and del</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>We are using <del   datetime="2011-01-05T08:15:30-05:00">HTML   4.01</del>    <ins   datetime="2011-01-05T08:15:30-05:00">XHTML   1.0</ins> for our pages.</p> 
</body>
</html>

Result

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Example of HTML datetime attribute with ins and del

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