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It's been a while since I've done much HTML work, but I had no idea that I'd missed the boat. Apparently a good chunk of HTML elements and attributes have been deprecated.

This is fine by me, as I'm taking a few minutes to learn hard-core CSS (goodbye, tables!), but the few of you that don't need to support Navigator 2.x anymore may want to check out the following link.

Good riddance, width attribute when used in an hr, pre, td or th tag!

Deprecated HTML tags and alternatives

Posted: Nov 29 2004, 06:12 PM by jeffreykey | with 7 comment(s)
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AndrewSeven said:


It's still ok to use a single cell table to place content in a table right??

I really wish somone would tell the people who create the html...

# November 29, 2004 7:30 PM

Darrell said:

So since you're back to web work, can we expect some interesting web utilities now? :)
# November 29, 2004 11:08 PM

rick said:

A single cell table to place content in a table? Sounds like the new ASP.Net 2.0 FormView control. I was really digging the new XHTML compliant features until I discovered that. I mean *technically* it is valid, but most of us moved away from unnecessary nested tables several years ago...
# November 29, 2004 11:49 PM

Jeff Key said:

Darrell: I doubt it, but you never know. :) I write little web apps for myself every once in a while, and this is one of them, but I think I'll open this up for others when I'm done. It's just a simple little thing, but useful for me and might be useful for others. (Non-development related.)
# November 30, 2004 8:30 AM

Perry said:

I'm stunned. I start playing around with WinForms, and you start playing around with web stuff? Wow.
I don't do much front end work, but when I do, I always seem to hit this site: http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/resources/
# November 30, 2004 9:03 AM

Jeff Key said:

Perry: It's a crazy world, my friend. Believe it or not, I wrote an e-commerce site before IIS existed, when background images were the cool new thing. ;) (NT Server 3.51 running O'Reilly WebServer (or something like that) using CGI.)

Ah yes, the Zen Garden! I love that site. I was all over it last night to learn CSS positioning. (I'd used CSS for years, but never positioning.) Designing a page with zero tables is a strange experience, but one that I'm starting to enjoy.

There's something very special about the Garden: Show anyone not using CSS that site and you're almost guaranteed a convert. What an elegant display of technology. Bravo!
# November 30, 2004 9:42 AM

Jeff Atwood said:

I've heard from even the hardest of the hard core anti-table brigade that there are still some layout tasks that tables are better/easier for.

CSS is fine, but when you get into really gnarly CSS layout, it's like you're trying to use the browser as a real development environment. And that always ends badly in my experience.
# November 30, 2004 11:49 PM