Deprecated elements
When discussing HTML and XHTML we often come across the word deprecated used about a tag or an element. This simply means that the tag or element is no longer valid in mark-up which we intend should be consistent with the standard. In other words, if we want our mark-up to validate then we should avoid using that element.
These pages confine themselves to discussing mark-up which is intended to validate as XHTML Transitional, so we have rather more leeway than if we published as XHTML strict. However, we don't want to make work for future editors so here is a list of those tags which we should not use (don't worry if you've never heard of these tags, now at least you'll know which ones you don't need to know!):
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<applet></applet> -
<basefont> -
<center></center> -
<dir></dir> -
<font></font> -
<isindex> -
<menu></menu> -
<s></s> -
<strike></strike> -
<u></u>
