HTML Text Formatting

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# HTML Text Formatting

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Try it yourself

## HTML Formatting Tags

HTML uses tags like <b> and <i> for formatting output, like bold or italic text.

These HTML tags are called formatting tags.

Refer to the bottom of this page for a complete reference.

## Examples - Try it Yourself

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

Preformatted text
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.

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

Abbreviations and acronyms
This example demonstrates how to handle an abbreviation or an acronym.

Text direction
This example demonstrates how to change the text direction.

Quotations
This example demonstrates how to handle long and short quotations.

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

## 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

Tag | Description
--- | ---
<abbr> | Defines an abbreviation
<acronym> | Defines an acronym
<address> | Defines an address element
<bdo> | Defines the text direction
<blockquote> | Defines a long quotation
<q> | Defines a short quotation
<cite> | Defines a citation
<dfn> | Defines a definition term

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