Let’s move toward formatting in HTML. Everyone wants to show a good content on his webpage with text effects, so page may look attractive. Here are some tags used in formatting a HTML page.
<b>Bold Text</b> <em>Emphasized Text</em> <strong>Strong Text</strong> <i>Italic Text</i> <sup>superscripted Text</sup> <sub>subscripted Text</sub> <del>struckthrough Text</del> <code>Computer Code Text</code>
<b> tag is used to make text blog and <i> tag is used to make text italic. We can use more formatting settings in CSS, like font weight or font size or we can also set a specific text font. <b> and <strong> tag almost show the result but <strong> is mostly used to highlight the words, same case is with <i> and <em> tag, <em> tag is used to highlight text on webpage and <i> tag is used to make text italic. For a line brake we use <br /> element and for paragraph we use <p> tag.
HTML Text Formatting Tags
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| <b> | Defines bold text |
| <em> | Defines emphasized text |
| <i> | Defines a part of text in an alternate voice or mood |
| <small> | Defines smaller text |
| <strong> | Defines important text |
| <sub> | Defines subscripted text |
| <sup> | Defines superscripted text |
| <ins> | Defines inserted text |
| <del> | Defines deleted text |
| <mark> | Defines marked/highlighted text |
HTML “Computer Output” Tags
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| <code> | Defines computer code text |
| <kbd> | Defines keyboard text |
| <samp> | Defines sample computer code |
| <var> | Defines a variable |
| <pre> | Defines preformatted text |
HTML Citations, Quotations, and Definition Tags
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| <abbr> | Defines an abbreviation or acronym |
| <address> | Defines contact information for the author/owner of a document |
| <bdo> | Defines the text direction |
| <blockquote> | Defines a section that is quoted from another source |
| <q> | Defines an inline (short) quotation |
| <cite> | Defines the title of a work |
| <dfn> | Defines a definition term |
