Text Formatting: If you use a word processor, you must be familiar with the ability to make text bold, italicized, or underlined; these are just three of the ten options available to indicate how text can appear in HTML and XHTML.
Text Formatting
Text Formatting
The HTML element defines text with strong importance. The content inside is typically displayed in bold.
Example
<strong>This text is important!</strong>
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The HTML element defines a part of text in an alternate voice or mood. The content inside is typically displayed in italic.
Tip: The tag is often used to indicate a technical term, a phrase from another language, a thought, a ship name, etc.
Example
<i>This text is italic</i>
The HTML element defines emphasized text. The content inside is typically displayed in italic.
Tip: A screen reader will pronounce the words in with an emphasis, using verbal stress.
Example
<em>This text is emphasized</em>
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The HTML element defines smaller text:
Example
<small>This is some smaller text.</small>
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The HTML element defines text that should be marked or highlighted:
Example
<p>Do not forget to buy <mark>milk</mark> today.</p>
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The HTML element defines text that has been deleted from a document. Browsers will usually strike a line through deleted text:
Example
<p>My favorite color is <del>blue</del> red.</p>
HTML <ins> Element
The HTML <ins> element defines a text that has been inserted into a document. Browsers will usually underline inserted text:
Example
<p>My favorite color is <del>blue</del><ins>red</ins>.</p>
The HTML <sub> element defines subscript text. Subscript text appears half a character below the normal line, and is sometimes rendered in a smaller font. Subscript text can be used for chemical formulas, like H2O:
Example
<p>This is <sub>subscripted</sub> text.</p>
HTML <sup> Element
The HTML <sup> element defines superscript text. Superscript text appears half a character above the normal line, and is sometimes rendered in a smaller font. Superscript text can be used for footnotes, like WWW[1]: