15 Tags That Are Deprecated In HTML5

Souvik Deb
2 min readJan 6, 2021
Photo by Florian Olivo on Unsplash

Recently, I decided to work on Web Development and thus started learning it. The first thing I had to learn to create webpages was HTML. The last time I used HTML was 9 years ago at the Computer Science class in my school. So, after I started I soon realized that some of the HTML tags that I used, no longer work. I had to look it up and in the process found that the tags were deprecated in the subsequent updates. I feel many of you might face the same issue if you are resuming after a huge gap like this. So, as my first story in medium, I decided to write about it.

Here are the 15 tags that are no longer available in HTML5:

  1. <acronym>: It was used to define an acronym.
  2. <applet> : It was used to define an applet.
  3. <basefont> : It was used to define an base font for the page.
  4. <big> : It was used to define big text.
  5. <center> : It was used to define centered text.
  6. <dir> : It was used to define a directory list.
  7. <font> : It was used to Defines text font, size, and color.
  8. <frame> : It was used to define a frame.
  9. <frameset> : It was used to define a set of frames.
  10. <isindex> : It was used to define a single-line input field.
  11. <noframes> : It was used to define a noframe section.
  12. <s>: It was used to define strikethrough text.
  13. <strike> : It was used to define strikethrough text.
  14. <tt> : It was used to define teletype text.
  15. <u> : It was used to define underlined text.

And that’s it! These are the 15 tags. These elements are not available in HTML5 anymore and their function is better handled by CSS.

I hope that this helped you.

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