# The \<blink\> Tag Shall Live On | kirupa.com

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-blink-tag-shall-live-on-kirupa-com/352407>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [November 23, 2014, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-blink-tag-shall-live-on-kirupa-com/352407 "2014-11-23T06:32:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2014, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-blink-tag-shall-live-on-kirupa-com/352407/1 "2014-11-23T06:32:20Z")

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by [kirupa](http://www.kirupa.com/me/index.htm) | 21 May 2013

I have some terrible news to share with you. If you are standing up, you should probably sit down for this. Here it goes...the much beloved blink tag **will be going away and never coming back**. Firefox, the last remaining browser to recognize this tag, will be [removing support for it](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=857820) starting in version 23. Despite its [accidental inclusion](http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag) a long time ago, the blink tag has been quite controversial.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [http://www.kirupa.com/html5/the\_blink\_tag\_shall\_live\_on.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/html5/the_blink_tag_shall_live_on.htm)