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>
• <sub>Subscript Text</sub>
• <sup>Superscript Text</sup>
• <u>Underlined Text</u>