Some new tags were introduced in HTML 5 to provide a better document structure. These tags are listed below.
| Tag | Uses |
| <article> | Used to specify a blog, a magazine or a newspaper article or any other independent piece of content in a document. |
| <aside> | Used to indicate that the specified article is somehow related to the rest of the document. |
| <audio> | Used to define an audio file in HTML. |
| <bdi> | Used for bi-directional isolation, i.e, to isolate a part of a content which is formatted in other direction from the outside text document. |
| <canvas> | Used to draw canvas in an HTML document. |
| <data> | Used to facilitate a machine readable version of the data. |
| <datalist> | Used to facilitate an auto complete feature for textfield. |
| <details> | Used to define any additional information on a topic or a summary. |
| <dialog> | Used to specify a window or a dialog box. |
| <figcaption> | Used to specify a caption for a <figure> element. |
| <figure> | Used to specify a self-contained content like photos, diagrams etc. |
| <footer> | Used to specify a footer for a section. |
| <header> | Used to specify a header for a section. |
| <main> | Used to specify the main content of a document. |
| <mark> | Used to mark or highlight the specified content. |
| <menuitem> | Used to specify a command that the user can invoke from a popup menu. |
| <meter> | Used to determine a scalar value within a given range. |
| <nav> | Used to specify a navigation link in an HTML document. |
| <progress> | Used to define the progress of a task. |
| <rp> | Used to specify the content to show in a browser that don’t support ruby annotation. |
| <rt> | Used to indicate an explanation or pronunciation of characters. |
| <ruby> | Used to specify a ruby annotation along with <rp> and <rt>. |
| <section> | Used to specify a section in an HTML document. |
| <summary> | Used to define a visible heading for the HTML <details> element. |
| <svg> | Used to display shapes. |
| <time> | Used to define a date or time. |
| <video> | Used to specify a video file in HTML. |
| <wbr> | Used to specify a line break opportunity. |
