The html <center> tag has been deprecated for years, but is still supported by all major browsers. Maybe it's time to un-deprecate this element, and just let it be a feature again.

[AspieSoft]

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/center

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The html <center> tag has been deprecated for years, but is still supported by all major browsers. Maybe it's time to un-deprecate this element, and just let it be a feature again.

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The html <center> tag has been deprecated for years, but is still supported by all major browsers. Maybe it's time to un-deprecate this element, and just let it be a feature again.

If the feature works, then why not just keep it as an option. It was removed because it's technically a css thing. That just sounds like someone being overly picky. Should we deprecate C++ because rust is better? Just because css has a text-align feature, does not mean that the html tag needs to be removed.

JSX is not technically an html thing either, but we still use it.

What did you expect to see?

html <center> tag not deprecated because its still been supported by all major browsers for many years now. Its clearly not going anywhere.

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https://caniuse.com/mdn-html_elements_center

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• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/center
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• Document last modified: 2024-01-02T10:57:48.000Z

[Josh-Cena]

Thanks. We have a very well-established guideline for considering things deprecated: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Writing_guidelines/Experimental_deprecated_obsolete

For <center>, it's listed in the HTML spec: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/obsolete.html#center

Elements in the following list are entirely obsolete, and must not be used by authors:

If you want to see it undeprecated, first ask the HTML spec to do so.