HTML datetime attribute
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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