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Bug 13361 - Please put back in the <center> tag. I don't know if it was forgotten or what but it is unacceptable to tell coders to just go use CSS to center things. Thank you.
Summary: Please put back in the <center> tag. I don't know if it was forgotten or what...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-07-26 00:11 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:13 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-07-26 00:11:11 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Please put back in the <center> tag. I don't know if it was forgotten or what
but it is unacceptable to tell coders to just go use CSS to center things.

Thank you.  

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Comment 1 Tab Atkins Jr. 2011-07-26 00:30:13 UTC 
Why is it unacceptable?  Centering things is a stylistic issue, which is what CSS is designed for.
Comment 2 Aryeh Gregor 2011-07-26 22:12:02 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: A long-standing design goal of HTML5 is that it removes all or almost all presentational markup, in favor of CSS.  See, e.g., bug 9355 for discussion.  This has been argued to death and it's not going to change, unless you want to try escalating.
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:13:11 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1