How to use HTML5 in IE 7?

Question

I was wondering whether there is a way to make html5 code visible in Internet Explorer 7 or less.

For example

Answer 1

IE < 9 doesn't recognize the HTML5 elements and will not generate them. So I use this bit of JS to do the generation:

var e = ("abbr,article,aside,audio,canvas,datalist,details,
figure,footer,header,hgroup,mark,menu,meter,nav,output,
progress,section,time,video,figcaption,summary").split(',');

for (var i = 0; i < e.length; i++){
    document.createElement(e[i]);
}

I use this conditional comment to check whether I need to run the script

Of course, you will need to style the tags for IE < 9, but you would need to anyway.