I just started a new job and during my lunch brake I wanted to work on practicing some skills to prep for the MS 70-480 specialist exam. I prefer using Google Chrome, but the company has rules about installing software for personal use so I am stuck working on IE (version:11.0.9600.18015).
So in notepad++ I created the simple test for HTML5's video element.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>70-480 Test Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<header>
<h1>Practice makes perfect</h1>
</header>
<section id="sandbox">
<video width="400" controls="">
<source src="http://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4" >
Your browser does not support the video element.
</video>
</section>
</body>
</html>
But the page came back without the video showing. I checked the Developer tools and found in the DOM Explorer elements native to the HTML5 (header, video, section, etc.) are not being recognized and instead are showing such as:
...
<body>
<header></header>
<h1>Practice makes perfect</h1>
</header><//header>
<section id="sandbox"></section>
<video controls="" width="400"></video>
<source src="http://www/w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4"></source>
</video><//video>
</section><//section>
</body>
....
I know IE11 supports the elements since when I copy my code to JSfiddle on that same browser it shows up fine. Is there an explanation for why Internet explorer is giving me this head ache?