HTML - Text Formatting

Text Formatting:

• In HTML, we have various elements to format text with special meaning. Such various elements are

• Font <font>

• Font Styles

• Font Effects

Font <font> Element:

• It defines the appearance of text on the web page by changing the font, size, and color.

Attribute	Description
Face	Defines the font family like Arial, Times new roman, etc.,
Size	Defines the character size in 7 levels. Default is 3 and can be increased gradually from 1 to 7 levels.
Color	Specifies a color name or code.

    <font face="arial" size="5" color="blue"> HTML Course - Geek4Tutorial </font>

Font Styles:

• In HTML, we can display special types of text like bold or italic using the below tags.

Style	Tag name
Bold	<b> - Bold, <strong> - Strong
Italic	<i> - Italic,  <em> - Emphasized

• <strong> - defines text with importance and content is displayed in bold.

• <em> - defines an emphasized text and content is displayed in italics.

    <b> Content in bold </b>

    <strong> Important text and displayed in bold </strong>

    <i> Content in italics </i>

    <em> Emphasized texxt and diplayed in italics </em>

Font effects:

• The font effects will change the character display mode by highlighting or changing the position raised or lowered from baseline.

• The tags used for font effects are

• <u> - Underline
• <ins> - Inserted
• <strike> - Strikeout
• <del> - Deleted
• <sup> - Superscript
• <sub> - Subscript

• <u> - displays the content inside with an underline.

    <p>This text is <u>underlined</u> text.</p>

• <ins> - defines a text that has been inserted into a document and content is displayed with an underline.

    <p>HTML latest version is <del>HTML4</del> <ins>HTML5</ins>.</p>

• <strike> - This is not supported in HTML5. Used in HTML4 to define a strikethrough text.

• <del> - defines a text that has been deleted from the document and content is displayed with strike a line through the deleted text.

    <p>HTML latest version is <del>HTML4</del> HTML5.</p>

• <sub> - define a subscript text that appears half a character below the baseline with a smaller font. This can be used for some chemical and mathematical formulas.

    <p>This is _subscripted text.</p>

• <sup> - defines a superscript text that appears half a character above the baseline with a smaller font.

    <p>This is ^{superscripted} text.</p>