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HTML Responsive Images Art Direction with the Picture Element The Picture Element

Posted by sayedshahidi
sayedshahidi
9,158 Points

Is this cross browser supported and it this an element only native to HTML5 (so not supported on ÌE8 +) ?

<picture>

1 Answer

Iain Simmons
MOD
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points
Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

It's not widely supported, and most definitely not in IE8.

Check out the Picture element page on Can I Use for browser support.

It's not actually part of the HTML5 specification, but is actually part of the WHATWG's Living Standard for HTML.