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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

Differences Between HTML 4.01 and HTML5

The <time> tag is new in HTML5.


Attributes

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.