Physical Style Elements
HTML has a few tags for controlling the appearance and flow of text. There are three text markup elements for controlling the font of a text segment (a fourth is proposed), and three tags for controlling the flow of text.
Font Tags:
These tags control the appearance the text they contain. They should be used within document structures such as paragraphs or tables.
Type Styles
- <B> will display text in BOLD
- <I> will display text in Italics
- <STRIKE> will display text with a line drawn through it
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- <SUB> will display text as a subscript.
- <SUP> will display text as a superscript.
- <TT> will display text in a fixed typewriter-like font
- <U> will display underlined text underlined
Font Size
- <BIG> will display text in a larger font.
- <FONT> lets you specify how much larger or smaller the contained text should be than the surrounding text. It requires a SIZE attribute:
<FONT SIZE=+3>Three times larger<FONT>
Thee times larger
- <SMALL> will display text in a smaller font.
