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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

HTML contains several elements for defining text with a special meaning.

Example

This text is bold

This text is italic

This is subscript and superscript

HTML Formatting Elements

Formatting elements were designed to display special types of text:

  •  – Bold text
  •  – Important text
  •  – Italic text
  •  – Emphasized text
  •  – Marked text
  •  – Smaller text
  •  – Deleted text
  •  – Inserted text
  •  – Subscript text
  •  – Superscript text

HTML and Elements

The HTML  element defines bold text, without any extra importance.

Example

<b>This text is bold</b>

The HTML  element defines text with strong importance. The content inside is typically displayed in bold.

Example

<strong>This text is important!</strong>

 

HTML and Elements

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>

 

HTML Element

The HTML  element defines smaller text:

Example

<small>This is some smaller text.</small>
 

HTML Element

The HTML  element defines text that should be marked or highlighted:

Example

<p>Do not forget to buy <mark>milk</mark> today.</p>
 

HTML Element

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>

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HTML <sub> Element

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]:

Example

<p>This is <sup>superscripted</sup> text.</p>
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