Week 4 Review Questions

Name five deprecated elements that cannot be used in XHTML 1.0 Strict documents or future XHTML specifications.

applet, basefont, center, dir, frame, frameset, strike, u are just some of the depreciated elements that cannot be used in strict DTD code.

Why is the Transitional XHTML doctype, to some, a better choice than using the Strict XHTML doctype?

It allows more freedom with attributes and tags. Also javascript and things like that.

What is a browser-specific (or proprietary) element?

An element which is broswer specific is only supported by one browser and does not appear in the W3C standards.

List five deprecated attributes that cannot be used in XHTML 1.0 Strict.

The target attribute in links, the width attribute in pre tags and the height, width and bgcolor attributes in td.

The align attribute is deprecated in many elements. However, there are elements where this attribute is allowed. List the elements where align is allowed (there are 8).

Assuming you mean the strict DTD, td, tr, thead, th, tfoot, tbody, colgroup, col.