The HTML5 Starting Template
by kirupa (https://www.kirupa.com/me/index.htm) | 3 October 2012
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Most of the articles I write are to help my dear friends - friends such as yourself. Very very rarely, there are times when I write things under the disguise of helping others. This is one such time. In this article, you will see a boilerplate HTML5 template designed to easily get you (aka me) up and running with a HTML5 document.
Without further delay, the content of our template is:
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To use this template, just create a new HTML document, copy all of the above contents, and paste it into your document. That's all there is to it. You now have a fully HTML5-compliant document.
Further Reading
To learn more about what this boilerplate content contains, check out the Getting Your Feet Wet With HTML5 (https://www.kirupa.com/html5/getting_your_feet_wet_html5.htm) tutorial where I go into more detail on each of the tags and what purpose they serve.
Conclusion
Well, that's pretty much it. My goal with this is to allow you to get a basic HTML5 document up and running in under 5 seconds. From here, depending on what you are doing, you should consider adding a reference to any of the popular 3rd party libraries to help you add interactivity, remove prefixes, reset your CSS, and so on.
As for me, I like my starting HTML to go commando and contain no additional bells and whistles. I'm sure Chuck Norris would be pleased at my decision.