The <center> tag, and many others, has been deprecated by W3C, HTML's world-wide standards body. In software in general, it is bad practice to use deprecated features.

I continue to use <center> and the other common but deprecated tags as I believe W3C got carried away in its enthusiasm for style sheets. Much of the appeal of HTML is its simplicity. Many HTML authors will never use a style sheet. (I strongly recommend styles and stylesheets, by the way.)

Though I find styles simple and effective, I continue to use the deprecated tags because I doubt that browsers will stop supporting them anytime in this century.

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