HTML5 Text Formatting
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What is Text Formatting in HTML?
Text formatting in HTML5 means using HTML tags to style or emphasize text on a webpage.
This helps you make text bold, italic, highlighted, subscript, superscript, etc. to improve readability and convey meaning.
Common HTML5 Text Formatting Tags
| Tag | Purpose | Example |
|---|---|---|
<b> | Bold text (without importance) | Bold |
<strong> | Strong importance (bold) | Important |
<i> | Italic text (without emphasis) | Italic |
<em> | Emphasized text (italic) | Emphasized |
<mark> | Highlighted text | Highlight |
<small> | Smaller text | Small |
<del> | Deleted (strikethrough) text | |
<ins> | Inserted (underlined) text | New |
<sub> | Subscript | H2O |
<sup> | Superscript | E=mc2 |
<u> | Underlined text | Underline |
<abbr> | Abbreviation | HTML |
When to use which?
- Use
<strong>and<em>for meaning (important for screen readers & SEO). - Use
<b>and<i>only for visual styling (no added importance). - Use
<mark>to highlight search keywords or important text. - Use
<del>and<ins>to show edits or corrections.