---
title: "Those HTML Elements You Never Use"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/those-html-elements-you-never-use-uq1mwumvi
source_url: https://dev.to/eludadev/those-html-elements-you-never-use-16bi
type: article
source: "DEV"
published: 2022-04-12T05:42:38.627Z
updated: 2022-04-12T05:42:38.627Z
tags: ["html"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 319
comments: 35
language: en
---

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# Those HTML Elements You Never Use

**[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 2 min read · 319 upvotes · 35 comments

## Summary

There are over a hundred elements in HTML that can be applied to pieces of text to give them special meaning in a document. In this article, I dive deep into the HTML documentation, to come out with a handy bag of elements that will improve your website in not one, but two very important ways.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@redas24** · 3 upvotes

> As a beginner i find really interesting special HTML5 reference on w3c is open my eyes for more different method I can use  looks like i will stay with HTML5 and CSS3 for long time before i jump into JavaScript. Cheers for good sources of knowledge Lucas.

**@neeraj1005** · 2 upvotes

> valuable post

**@tvdheijden** · 2 upvotes

> The first HTML elements post that showed me new tags. Really cool to see the `<ins>` and `<del>` tags. I always thought sites like GitHub made custom components for that effect

**@dansowaru** · 2 upvotes

> Ther'e always so much more than we use in our daily basis. I love learning new semantic markdowns and implementing in my pages to upgrade them. Try to learn and apply a new thing everyday you too!

**@toniomasotti** · 2 upvotes

> Interesting, thanks for sharing!

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