HTML Tutorial/Text Formatting

Formatting Elements

In HTML, there is a list of elements that specify text style.

Formatting elements were designed to display special types of text:

<html>
   <head>
      <title>first page</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <p>This is regular text </p>
      <p><b> bold text </b></p>
      <p><big> big text </big></p>
      <p><i> italic text </i></p>
      <p><small> small text </small></p>
      <p><strong> strong text </strong></p>
      <p><sub> subscripted text </sub></p>
      <p><sup> superscripted text </sup></p>
      <p><ins> inserted text </ins></p>
      <p><del> deleted text </del></p>
   </body>
</html>

The ¹ tag is a phrase tag. It defines Important text.

Browsers display as ², and ³ as ⁴.
However, the meanings of these tags differ: and define bold and italic text, respectively, while and indicate that the text is "important".

1. 
Defines important text.
2. 
Defines bold text.
3. 
Defines emphasized text.
4. 
Defines italic text.