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Text Enhancing Elements
These elements are for enhancing text. For instance making text bold or italicized... maybe emphasized or highlighted. Strong or ... there are many of them.
big
Name
Example
Description
b
bold
Renders text in what ever the fonts bold attribute reveals.
cite
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Marks a citation. Use this for styling purposes.
em
Emphasis
Emphasis a word or phrase
i
Italisize
Renders text i.e. a word, letter, phrase or paragraph in italics
mark
Sometimes you need to highlight
Marks text be setting the background color like highlighting
q
Put something in quotes
Quotes a word or phrase since the " is reserved. Although modern browsers parse this well.
s
Give me some all of your apples
Strike out a word or phrase
small
Makes the text smaller
Kinda like mumbling, a side note or talking under your breath.
span
Hello Dolly!
Style a word or phrase inside another element like the p element.
strong
Makes test strong
Emphasis to stand out
sub
22
Subscript
sup
22
Superscript
u
It was really big
Used to underline text
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Representational Elements
These elements represent text in specific formats. They are really ways to style your text. For example the code tag makes text appear to be computer code.
Name
Example
Description
abbr
HTML
An abbreviation. Often used with the <dfn> element.
bdi
or Hello
Maintains the direction of the text when the text is displayed within content that is written in another direction.
bdo
Hello or Hello
Bidirectional text. Used witht he dir attribute.
br
Something
Forces a break in a line
code
The <code> tag
Useful for defining computer code.
data
Machine Data
For use with scripts. Maintains two seperate data values. The Elements data and the value attributes data. This allow the author to present the elements data to the user while keeping the valuedata to be used in scripts
dfn
DeFinitioN Element
kbd
For help press F1
Represents user input.
samp
sample output
Illustrates a sample or sample output from another source like a computer program
time
Shows time in a valid machine readable format
var
The nth occurance
Illustrates a variable. The th is done with <sup>
wbr
ExtreeemmlllyyLooooonnnnngggWooorrrddd
Tells the browser where in the line...to create a break... if it has to create a break... in the line.
Name
Example
Description
abbr
HTML
An abbreviation. Often used with the <dfn> element.
bdi
or Hello
Maintains the direction of the text when the text is displayed within content that is written in another direction.
bdo
Hello or Hello
Bidirectional text. Used witht he dir attribute.
br
Something
Forces a break in a line
code
The <code> tag
Useful for defining computer code.
data
Machine Data
For use with scripts. Maintains two seperate data values. The Elements data and the value attributes data. This allow the author to present the elements data to the user while keeping the valuedata to be used in scripts
dfn
DeFinitioN Element
kbd
For help press F1
Represents user input.
samp
sample output
Illustrates a sample or sample output from another source like a computer program
time
Shows time in a valid machine readable format
var
The nth occurance
Illustrates a variable. The th is done with <sup>
wbr
ExtreeemmlllyyLooooonnnnngggWooorrrddd
Tells the browser where in the line...to create a break... if it has to create a break... in the line.
