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 |
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<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 |
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<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 |
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<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 |