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For amusement, I tried inputting <applet>, <center>, <font>, <marquee>, and <object>, but the form declared them all invalid. I vividly remember using these over a decade ago.

There are a few sites still using <frame> and <frameset>, but both are marked as invalid.



<object> works, but I was surprised as well that the others don't. It was really hard for me to come up with many tags that are still allowed.


Correctly: almost all of them were removed from the HTML spec many years ago (but not <object>, that's still a valid HTML5 element).

But: invalid according to the spec doesn't mean it won't do something in a browser, browsers aren't pure spec implementations, they're applications used by humans to view content made by humans =)


> There are a few sites still using <frame> and <frameset>, but both are marked as invalid.

Those are invalid now?

Well more useless knowledge accumulating in my brain I guess.


It also doesn't like <blink> and <marquee>




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