Note: by convention, HTML ELEMENT names are shown in upper-case letters while the names of attributes are in lowercase letters.
Deprecated Structural Elements
- List element: DIR
and in any list element the attributes: start and value
- Link element: APPLET
- Forms and keyboard controls: ISINDEX
Deprecated Presentational Elements
- Block alignment: CENTER
and alignment attributes in most elements: align, valign, clear, nowrap
Note: within tables, only align is deprecated for the overall placement of the table on a page, and of the caption if any.
- Spacing attributes: hspace, vspace, compact, type
- Text style and fonts elements: STRIKE, S, U, FONT, BASEFONT
and the attributes: face, size
- All color attributes: background, bgcolor, color, text, link, alink, vlink
- And the noshade attribute of the HR element.
A complete list of deprecated elements is available in the HTML 4.0 specification.
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