Content

Catching Attention

Emphasis

Makes words or phrases stand out from the text. Use the em element to emphasize text.

Strong Importance

Mark importance, seriousness or urgency. Use the strong element to mark important text.

Set off text

Technical terms, phrases in foreign languages or thoughts are marked up with the i element.

Bring text to attention

For otherwise not covered cases, text is brought to attention with the b element.

Common Text Annotations

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abbr

The HTML Abbreviation element represents an abbreviation or acronym; the optional title attribute can provide an expansion or description for the abbreviation.

cite

The HTML Citation element is used to describe a reference to a cited creative work, and must include the title of that work.

dfn

The HTML Definition element (dfn) is used to indicate the term being defined within the context of a definition phrase or sentence.

q

The HTML q element indicates that the enclosed text is a short inline quotation. Most modern browsers implement this by surrounding the text in quotation marks.

small

The HTML small element represents side-comments and small print, like copyright and legal text, independent of its styled presentation. By default, it renders text within it one font-size small, such as from small to x-small.

sub

The HTML Subscript element (sub) specifies inline text which should be displayed as subscript for solely typographical reasons.

sup

The HTML Superscript element (sup) specifies inline text which is to be displayed as superscript for solely typographical reasons.

var

The HTML Variable element (var) represents the name of a variable in a mathematical expression or a programming context.

time

The HTML time element represents a specific period in time.

u

The HTML Unarticulated Annotation Element (u) represents a span of inline text which should be rendered in a way that indicates that it has a non-textual annotation.

Marking Text

s

The HTML s element renders text with a strikethrough, or a line through it. Use the s element to represent things that are no longer relevant or no longer accurate.

However, s is not appropriate when indicating document edits; for that, use the del and ins elements, as appropriate.

mark

The HTML Mark Text element (mark) represents text which is marked or highlighted for reference or notation purposes, due to the marked passage's relevance or importance in the enclosing context.

del

The HTML del element represents a range of text that has been deleted from a document.

ins

The HTML ins element represents a range of text that has been added to a document.

Referring to Informatic Artifacts

code

The HTML code element displays its contents styled in a fashion intended to indicate that the text is a short fragment of computer code.

kbd

The HTML Keyboard Input element (kbd) represents a span of inline text denoting textual user input from a keyboard, voice input, or any other text entry device.

samp

The HTML Sample Element (samp) is used to enclose inline text which represents sample (or quoted) output from a computer program.