By rupl on
Change record status: 
Published (View all published change records)
Project: 
Drupal core
Introduced in branch: 
8.x
Issue links: 
https://www.drupal.org/node/1077566
Description: 

Drupal 8 outputs HTML5 by default. The following changes were made to the core html.tpl.php template:

  • HTML5 DOCTYPE
  • The template introduces the $html_attributes variable in the <html> tag
  • The template introduces the $body_attributes variable in the <body> tag
  • RDFa attributes are no longer hardcoded into <html>, but output using the $html_attributes variable
Impacts: 
Module developers
Themers