Computers 4 you!: HTML Text Formatting

HTML Text Formatting

This page shows tags that are used to format HTML text and provides a description of what they do.

There are many tags used to format text. They are listed below:

.. - Sets bold text.
<big>..</big> - Sets larger than normal text.
.. - Sets text in italics and denotes emphasis.
.. - Sets text in italics.
.. - Makes text smaller than normal.
<strike>..</strike> - Draws a line through the text as a "strikeout".
.. - Same as bold but denotes strong emphasis.
<super>..</super> -Superscript.
<tt>..</tt> - Monospaced typewriter font.
.. - Underlined text.
<var>..</var> - Mark a variable.

Examples

Here's the HTML code:

This is an example of the tag . 
This is an example of the <big><big> tag</big>. 
This is an example of the tag 
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This is an example of the <strike><strike> tag</strike>. 
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This is an example of the tag. 
This is an example of the <tt><tt> tag<tt>. 
This is an example of the tag 
This is an example of the <var><var> tag</var>

Here's how it looks:

This is an example of the tag.
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This is an example of the tag.
This is an example of the ~~tag~~.
This is an example of the tag.
This is an example of the ^{^tag.}
This is an example of the _{_tag.}
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Other tags associated with text are:

ABBREV - Denotes an abbreviation
ACRONYM
AU - Author
CODE - Denotes program code and should be set in the same format as the PRE tag, but does not work either with all browsers or all HTML versions.
DEL - Denotes deleted text.
DFN - Denotes the definition of a term
INS - Denotes inserted text
KBD - Text to be typed at the keyboard, such as a computer command. The test is displayed in a mono spaced format.
PERSON
Q - Quotation.
SAMP - Denotes sample text.

Each of these tags require an ending tag.

The FONT tag

The font element is being depreciated and replaced by style sheet attributes. The element is used to set a section of text with a specific font. It uses the tag to begin and the for the end tag.

FONT Attributes and Tags

- Begins the FONT element.

SIZE="4" - Sets the font size using a value, between 1 and 7. The default value is 3. It can be specified with a "+n" value to set the size relative to the current size.
COLOR="blue" - Sets the text color.
FACE="roman" - The font name to be used. If there is more than one font name separated by commas the first font that can be found is used.