Deprecated elements and attributes

About deprecated elements and attributes

Some elements and attributes are deprecated in HTML 4.01.

When you use the Strict DTD, the following deprecated elements and attributes cannot be used.

List of deprecated elements and attributes

Deprecated elements and attributes
(Deprecated : Red color cells)
Elements Attributes CSS used instead
applet
basefont size font-size
(body) bgcolor background-color
background background-image
text color
link a:link
vlink a:visited
alink a:active
(br) clear clear
(caption) align text-align
center text-align
(div) align text-align
(dl) compact
font size font-size
color color
face font-family
(h1-h6) align text-align
(hr) size height
width width
align text-align, margin
noshade
(img) border border
align vertical-align, float
vspace margin
hspace margin
(input) align vertical-align, float
(legend) align
(li) type list-style-type
value
(ol) type list-style-type
start
(p) align text-align
s text-decoration
strike text-decoration
(table) bgcolor background-color
align float
(tr) bgcolor background-color
(th) width width
height height
bgcolor background-color
nowrap white-space
(td) width width
height height
bgcolor background-color
nowrap white-space
u text-decoration
(ul) type list-style-type