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Tutorials
Lesson:

  1. What is HTML?

  2. HTML Editors
  3. HTML Elements and Attributes

  4. HTML Headings and Paragraphs

  5. HTML Formatting

  6. HTML Links

  7. HTML Images

  8. HTML Tables

  9. HTML Lists

  10. HTML Forms

Exercises
For every lesson:

  1. Hyper Text Markup Language

  2. Notepad

  3. Start tag to End tag and name="value"

  4. <h1> and <p>

  5. <b> and <i>

  6. <a href=>

  7. <img src=>

  8. <th> <tr> and <td>

  9. <OL> and <UL>

  10. <form>



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Lesson 5: HTML Formatting


HTML Text Formatting

This text is bold

This text is italic

This is computer output

This is subscript and superscript

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HTML Formatting Tags

HTML uses tags like <b> and <i> for formatting output, like bold or italic text.

These HTML tags are called formatting tags (look at the bottom of this page for a complete reference).

Note Often <strong> renders as <b>, and <em> renders as <i>.

However, there is a difference in the meaning of these tags:

<b> or <i> defines bold or italic text only.

<strong> or <em> means that you want the text to be rendered in a way that the user understands as "important". Today, all major browsers render strong as bold and em as italics. However, if a browser one day wants to make a text highlighted with the strong feature, it might be cursive for example and not bold!


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





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