On: How to Center in CSS (2015)

[blauditore]

I've been doing HTML for ~10 years and have never seen this before. Apparently, it was deprecated with HTML4 already, though I'm not sure why.

[freefal → blauditore]

Probably the same reason that <b> (bold) and <i> (italics) aren't used anymore. There's now a clearer delineation between document structure (described via tags) and style (described via CSS) than there was in the earlier HTML specs.

[Semaphor → freefal]

b and i are back though, but a little different ;)

> The b element represents a span of text to which attention is being drawn for utilitarian purposes without conveying any extra importance and with no implication of an alternate voice or mood, such as key words in a document abstract, product names in a review, actionable words in interactive text-driven software, or an article lede.

and

> The i element represents a span of text in an alternate voice or mood, or otherwise offset from the normal prose in a manner indicating a different quality of text, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an idiomatic phrase from another language, transliteration, a thought, or a ship name in Western texts.

[0]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-b-element

[1]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-i-element

[colejohnson66 → Semaphor]

To add to this: if you want to draw attention for reasons that don’t fit the <b> and <i> tag’s purpose, there’s <em>.

[6510 → freefal]

If you allow user generated input it is fine to allow <center>, <b> or <i>

[growt → blauditore]

Now I feel old. On the other hand, apparently I'm doing HTML for >20 years. Let me tell you about blink and marquee ... ;)

[blauditore → growt]

For some reasons, I've encountered those before. :)