HTML Deprecated Elements
HTML Deprecated Elements
Something is disapproved called deprecated.
Something is acknowledged but discouraged.
Deprecated HTML Tag List
| Element | Description | Alternative |
|---|---|---|
| <acronym> | Tells the browser that the characters it contains are an acronym or abbreviation. | <abbr> |
| <applet> | Defines embedded Java applet. | <object> |
| <basefont> | Specifies the default font size and color of the text. It can be used several times inside the <head> or <body> tags. | CSS styles |
| <bb> | specifying a user agent/(browser) command that the user can invoke. | - |
| <bgsound> | This Internet Explorer element associates a background sound with a page. | <audio> |
| <big> | Increases the font size by one conventional unit. | CSS styles |
| <blink> | Creates an enclosed text, which flashes slowly. | animation |
| <center> | Aligns the content to the center. | text-align |
| <comment> | This nonstandard Internet Explorer element treats enclosed text as comments. | <!-- --> |
| <content> | Used inside of Shadow DOM as an insertion point, and wasn't meant to be used in ordinary HTML. | |
| <datagrid> | Used to set row or column grid and split number of individual column grid. | - |
| <dir> | Defines a list of directory titles. | <ul>; list-style |
| <font> | Defines the font characteristics. | CSS styles |
| <frame> | Defines a specific window, a frame, where we can load another web page. | <iframe> |
| <frameset> | Defines the structure of a frame, number of columns and rows, and how many percent/pixels it will occupy in a frame. | |
| <isindex> | Displays search strings in the current document. | <form> |
| <keygen> | Used to control the generation of key pairs in secured communications. | - |
| <listing> | Specifies a code listing; it is no longer part of the HTML standard. | <pre> |
| <marquee> | Creates a scrolling text or an image. | animation, transform |
| <menuitem> | Specifies a command that a user is able to invoke through a popup menu. | <ul> |
| <nextid> | The number of the next document-wide numeric identifier to be allocated of the form z123. | |
| <nobr> | Make text without line breaks. | <wbr> |
| <noembed> | Specifies alternative content to be displayed on browsers that cannot support an embedded media object. | - |
| <noframes> | Contains an alternate text to be displayed in browsers that do not support frames. | - |
| <param> | Specifies a parameter to be passed to an embedded object that is specified with the <object> element. | - |
| <plaintext> | Tells the browser, that its content must be displayed as an ordinary text without formatting. | <pre> |
| <rb> | Delimits the base text component of a <ruby> annotation. | - |
| <rbc> | Specifies semantic annotations of characters that are presented in <rb> elements used inside a <ruby>. | - |
| <rtc> | Specifies semantic annotations of characters that are presented in <rt> elements used inside a <ruby>. | - |
| <shadow> | Used as a shadow DOM insertion point. | - |
| <spacer> | Older Netscape-proprietary element specifies an invisible region, which is useful for page layout. | - |
| <strike> | Defines the strikethrough text. | <del>, <s>, CSS styles |
| <tt> | Defines text to be displayed in monospace or fixed-width font as it would appear on a teletype or typewriter. | font-family, <kbd>, <code>, <span> |
| <xmp> | specifies that the enclosed text is an example. | - |