7 Cool HTML Elements Nobody Uses

Searching for cool HTML elements, especially if you don’t know what you’re looking for, is often like being thrown into a pile of garbage

Don’t worry, I did the dirty work for you!

After scavenging through the seemingly endless pile of HTML elements, I dug up a few of the rarely used gems!

1. meter & progress

The progress element is the semantically correct way of displaying progress bars.

The meter element is progress on steroids. Apart from displaying a scalar measurement within a known range, it allows you to specify the value's low, high & optimum range.

<meter
  min="0"
  max="100"
  low="25"
  high="75"
  optimum="80"
  value="50"
></meter>

2. sup & sub

You can add superscripts (like x²) with sup and subscripts (like x₀) using sub to your document.

3. datalist

datalist allows you to add an autocomplete suggestions to your input elements.

NOTE

1. The suggestions are NOT LIMITED to text inputs, but can be used with color, date, time, and even range inputs.
2. The default styling of the suggestions is unpleasant to look at, to say the least. But, you can always style it using CSS.

4. map & area