HTML Text Formatting

HTML defines a lot of elements for formatting output, like bold or italic text. Below are a lot of examples that you can try out yourself:

This example demonstrates how you can format text in an HTML document.

This example demonstrates how you can control the line breaks and spaces with the pre tag.

"Computer output"

tags

This example demonstrates how different "computer output" tags will be displayed.

This example demonstrates how to write an address in an HTML document.

This example demonstrates how to handle an abbreviation or an acronym.

This example demonstrates how to change the text direction.

This example demonstrates how to handle long and short quotations.

This example demonstrates how to mark a text that is deleted or inserted to a document.

How to View HTML Source

Have you ever seen a Web page and wondered "Hey! How did they do that?"

To find out, click the VIEW option in your browser's toolbar and

select SOURCE or PAGE SOURCE. This will open a window that shows you the

HTML code of the page.

Text Formatting Tags

Tag	Description
<b>	Defines bold text
<big>	Defines big text
<em>	Defines emphasized text
<i>	Defines italic text
<small>	Defines small text
<strong>	Defines strong text
<sub>	Defines subscripted text
<sup>	Defines superscripted text
<ins>	Defines inserted text
<del>	Defines deleted text
<s>	Deprecated. Use <del> instead
<strike>	Deprecated. Use <del> instead
<u>	Deprecated. Use styles instead

"Computer Output" Tags

Tag	Description
<code>	Defines computer code text
<kbd>	Defines keyboard text
<samp>	Defines sample computer code
<tt>	Defines teletype text
<var>	Defines a variable
<pre>	Defines preformatted text
<listing>	Deprecated. Use <pre> instead
<plaintext>	Deprecated. Use <pre> instead
<xmp>	Deprecated. Use <pre> instead

Citations, Quotations, and Definition Tags