While most HTML tags are used to create elements, HTML also provides in-text formatting tags to apply specific text-related styles to portions of text. This topic includes examples of HTML text formatting such as highlighting, bolding, underlining, subscript, and stricken text.
<abbr>Abbreviation</abbr><b>Bold Text</b><del>Deleted Text</del><em>Emphasized Text</em><i>Italic Text</i><ins>Inserted Text</ins><mark>Marked (or Highlighted) Text</mark><s>Stricken Text</s><strong>Strong Text</strong><sub>Subscript Text</sub><sup>Superscript Text</sup><u>Underlined Text</u>