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Zen: Identify HTML5 Markup in Templates

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    Let's take a look at some of the template files in Zen, so we can see how HTML5 markup was incorporated into the templates.
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    Navigated to sites/all/themes/zen.
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    And as a base theme, my theme, zendemo, which is the default theme right now, is going to inherit these template files.
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    So unless I override them, which I can certainly do, these are the template files that are going to apply in my theme.
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    So let's take a look at a couple of these, like the comment.tpl.php, and the comment wrapper, and the node and the page.
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    So, first, if we take a look at the comment.tpl.php, right away, right off the bat, you can see some HTML5 markup
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    such as the article tag, the header tag, the mark tag and the footer tag.
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    So there's just one example of how HTML5 markup was incorporated.
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    By contrast, if we take a look at the Drupal core theme Bartik, and take a look at the comment.tpl.php, you can see that it's all divs.
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    So we've got divs all the way down, divs and spans. There's some header tags here. And that's the default markup for Bartik.

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Zen: Identify HTML5 Markup in Templates

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4 minutes 19 seconds // Drupal 7 // HDCC //

In this tutorial, I will take you on a tour of some of the template files included with Zen and highlight how HTML5 semantic markup was incorporated into the markup of several different template files.

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Zen — Drupal.org
Zen documentation — Drupal.org
HTML5 Developer Guide — MDN