title: Will Visual Studio 2010 support HTML 5?
body: <p>Since Visual Studio 2010 is slated for release in March of 2010 and HTML 5 is now starting to be used even more widely, I would like to know if Visual Studio will ship with HTML 5 templates, standard controls and support for the more common markup?</p>
  <p>A definition for support of HTML 5 would be that any new version of Visual Studio should have similar support for code-completion, validation and markup that is currently supported for HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 and 1.1.</p>
  <p><strong>Update From the Visual Web Develolper Team Blog:</strong></p>
  <p>HTML 5 intellisense and validation schema for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer is for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100313112602/http://blogs.msdn.com:80/webdevtools/archive/2009/11/18/html-5-intellisense-and-validation-schema-for-visual-studio-2008-and-visual-web-developer.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">downloading</a>. Follow the instructions posted on the page to install the new scheme. Seems like the Visual Studio Team will be supporting HTML 5 after all.</p>
  <p><strong>February 2011 Update from the Visual Web Developer Team Blog</strong></p>
  <p>Visual Studio 2010 SP1 finally adds some support for HTML5. &quot;The entire HTML5 specification isn’t supported but most of the new elements and attributes are. That means you get both intellisense and validation for HTML5 with SP1.&quot; <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120621010521/http://blogs.msdn.com:80/b/webdevtools/archive/2011/01/27/html5-amp-css3-in-visual-studio-2010-sp1.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Read More Here</a></p>
  <p><strong>May 2011 Update from Scott Guthrie's blog</strong></p>
  <p>Just this month, Microsoft has pushed out some <a href="https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/html5-improvements-with-the-asp-net-mvc-3-tools-update" rel="nofollow noreferrer">HTML5 improvements with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update</a>. While the post seems to be very pro MVC, it's nice to see that Visual Studio 2010 now has default templates and intelisense support for HTML5; along with a nice addition of a jQuery script that will give some backwards support for older browsers.</p>