On Friday, October 29, 2010 12:23 PM (UTC+13) Caroline wrote:- .. from your page http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bristowe/test/html5-attr.html I read: "As browsers are designed to be backwardly compatible, they will continue to handle deprecated mark-up. Documents that use attributes that are not valid in HTML5 will still render correctly, and will validate provided they use a DOCTYPE that supports HTML4 or earlier languages." Therefore do I understand correctly that "everyone should be aware that the styling will no longer be achieved using tags, and CSS must be used to achieve the appearance required" applies only to the use of HTML5? -------------- Caroline, Yes, that is what I intended it to mean. All existing browsers will parse and render code from the "Wayback Machine", and if you continue to write in older languages your page will be readible. Change happens slowly. The downside of HTML5 is that the simple option of using the browser built-in borders in tables will no longer be available. All is not lost, as I have another HTML5 page that makes use of the border="1" option by calling it using javascript. The page is valid HTML5, and is at:- http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~bristowe/HTML-Convertor/simple-table.html Barry