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Chapter 39: Text Formatting

Introduction

While most HTML tags are used to create elements, HTML also provides in-text formatting tags to
apply specific text-related styles to portions of text. This topic includes examples of HTML
text formatting such as highlighting, bolding, underlining, subscript, and stricken text.

Syntax

• <abbr>Abbreviation</abbr>
• <b>Bold Text</b>
• <del>Deleted Text</del>
• <em>Emphasized Text</em>
• <i>Italic Text</i>
• <ins>Inserted Text</ins>
• <mark>Marked (or Highlighted) Text</mark>
• <s>Stricken Text</s>
• <strong>Strong Text</strong>
• _{Subscript Text}
• ^{Superscript Text}
• <u>Underlined Text</u>

Examples

Bold, Italic, and Underline

Bold Text

To bold text, use the <strong> or <b> tags:

<strong>Bold Text Here</strong>

or

<b>Bold Text Here</b>

What’s the difference? Semantics. <strong> is used to indicate that the text is fundamentally or
semantically important to the surrounding text, while <b> indicates no such importance and
simply represents text that should be bolded.

If you were to use <b> a text-to-speech program would not say the word(s) any differently than
any of the other words around it - you are simply drawing attention to them without adding any
additional importance. By using <strong>, though, the same program would want to speak those
word(s) with a different tone of voice to convey that the text is important in some way.

Italic Text

To italicize text, use the <em> or <i> tags:

<em>Italicized Text Here</em>

or

<i>Italicized Text Here</i>

What’s the difference? Semantics. <em> is used to indicate that the text should have extra

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