Why is the tag deprecated in HTML?

Question

I am just curious as to why the

tag in HTML was deprecated.

The

was a simple way of quickly center-aligning b

Answer 1

The

element was deprecated because it defines the presentation of its contents — it does not describe its contents.

One method of centering is to set the margin-left and margin-right properties of the element to auto, and then set the parent element’s text-align property to center. This guarantees that the element will be centered in all modern browsers.