👻 Search Tag — The Doomed HTML Arrival

Removals, blocks and bans. A minor tag that ignited Berserk mode, becomes a HTML standard.

A minor semantic Search tag officially became part of the HTML living standard.

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What Is Search Tag?

Browser developers were notified about it, and soon we may see Firefox, Brave and Opera implementing the tag.

So let’s learn what is it for:

The search element represents a part of a document or application that contains a set of form controls or other content related to performing a search or filtering operation.

The wording of the definition is very important. The new tag is purely semantic. It doesn’t offer any new features. The idea behind it is to wrap parts of the page that handle search or filtering for screen readers and search engines to be able to distinguish such sections from other forms, for example newsletter subscription form.

Here’s an example: