Special Formatting
Have you noticed how these tutorial pages have text that looks different? Sometimes, it's bold, or in italics, or it looks like
computer text
These are things you can do with special formatting. To make these special text appearances, you just need to surround the text with the appropriate tag. These tags can go inside any other element - <p>, <td>, <th> - anything that contains text.
You can use these different text formats to emphasize certain things, or to draw attention to something. You can even combine them for extra emphasis.
The special formatting tags, and examples of how they look, are:
| Tag | Usage | Example |
|---|---|---|
| b | <b>bold text</b> |
bold text |
| blockquote | <blockquote>This is a blockquote. Use it to emphasize a long quote</blockquote> |
This is a blockquote. Use it to emphasize a long quote |
| code | <code>This is computer code</code> |
This is computer code |
| i | <i>italic text</i> |
italic text |
| mark | <mark></mark> |
marked or highlighted text |
| q | <q>A short quote</q> |
A short quote |
| s | <s>strike-through text</s> |
|
| sub | <sub>sub-script</sub> - like H<sub>2</sub>O |
sub-script - like H2O |
| sup | <sup>super-script</sup> - like πr<sup>2</sup> |
super-script - like πr2 |
| u | <u>underlined</u> |
underlined |
Did you see that pi
character? You'll learn how to do special characters like that in the next lession;« Prev: Tables Next: Special Characters »