Extension:HTML5Tags

MediaWiki extensions manual

HTML5Tags Release status: unmaintained
Implementation	Tag
Description	Allows some extra HTML5 tags in wiki code
Author(s)	Leonard Wallentin (Rotseetalk)
Latest version	0.3 (2021-02-11)
MediaWiki	1.18.+
PHP	7+
Database changes	No
License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
Download	Download snapshot GitHub: project page git repository URL [help ] commit history Note: No localisation updates are provided by translatewiki.net . README
Hooks used ParserFirstCallInit

The HTML5Tags extension allows a couple of HTML5 tags such as e.g. figure/figcaption in wiki code.

This extension remains useful as long as bug T25932 is not resolved.

Allowed tags

• article
• figure
• figcaption
• hgroup
• mark
• nav
• section
• time
• footer
• header

Installation

• Download and place the file(s) in a directory called HTML5Tags in your extensions/ folder.
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  require_once "$IP/extensions/HTML5Tags/HTML5Tags.php";
  

•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

If you want HTML5 tags to work properly in older versions of Internet Explorer, you will have to add a HTML5 Shiv script to your skin, e. g.:

<!--[if lt IE 9]>
     <script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->

There is no known way to make these tags fully behave in earlier versions of Internet Explorer for users with JavaScript turned off. That is the reason they are not allowed in wiki code in the first place.