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  • <body bgcolor="">

    Was used to set the background color on a document. Deprecated. Use CSS instead.

  • <body text="">

    Was used to style the text inside the body of the document. Deprecated. Use CSS.

  • <body scroll="">

    Was used to toggle the display of scroll bars on a page, disabling the user's ability to scroll. Deprecated. You could use CSS to accomplish this, but you should not because it is a bad idea.

  • <br clear=""">

    Was used to ensure that line breaks "cleared" floated or aligned elements above them. Deprecated.

  • <button name="">

    Defines the name of the button, which is used for form inputs and labels.

  • <button accesskey="">

    Defines an keyboard shortcut for the button. As of HTML5, this is a global attribute that can be used on any element.

  • <caption align="">

    Was used to control the horizontal alignment of a table caption. Deprecated. Use CSS instead.

  • <caption valign="">

    Was used to control the vertical alignment of a table caption. Deprecated. Use CSS.

  • <cite> HTML Tag

    The <cite> element identifies the source of a quotation or creative work. Use the element to identify the name rather than the author or creator of a referenced creative work.

  • <code> HTML Tag

    The <code> element is used to define enclosed text as computer code. It is often paired with the <pre> element to preserve line breaks and indentation when presenting blocks of computer code.

  • <col> HTML Tag

    The <col> element, typically implemented as a child element of a parent <colgroup>, can be used to target a column in an HTML table.

  • <col span="">

    Specifies the number of natural vertical columns to be included in the <col> element.

  • <col align="">

    Was used to control the alignment of text within table columns. Deprecated. Use CSS instead.

  • <col width="">

    Was used to control the width of table columns. Deprecated. Use CSS instead.

  • <col bgcolor="">

    Was used to control the background color of table columns. Deprecated. Use CSS instead.

  • <colgroup> HTML Tag

    The <colgroup> element is used a parent container for one or more <col> elements which are used to target columns in an HTML table.

  • <colgroup span="">

    Specifies the number of vertical table columns to be included in a column group.

  • <colgroup align="">

    Was used to control the text alignment within a column group in a table. Deprecated. Use CSS.

  • <colgroup width="">

    Was used to specify the width of a group of table columns. Deprecated. Use CSS instead.

  • <dd> HTML Tag

    The <dd> element is used to pair a definition description with a sibling definition term enclosed in <dt> tags within a parent definition list.

  • <ins> HTML Tag

    The <ins> element is used to identify text that has been inserted into a document. It is often paired with a <del> element which identifies deleted text replaced by the text contained in the <ins> element.

  • <dfn> HTML Tag

    The <dfn> element is used to identify the defining instance of a term in an HTML document. When a term is wrapped in <dfn> tags, browsers and web crawlers will understand that nearby text contains a definition of the term.

  • <dir> HTML Tag

    The <dir> element, deprecated beginning in HTML 4.01, was used to create a list of file names or the contents of a directory. An unordered list, created with the <ul> element, is the appropriate modern replacement for the <dir> element.

  • <div align="">

    Was used to specify the alignment of a div element. Deprecated. Use CSS instead.