--- title: Text Formatting in HTML --- ## Text Formatting in HTML HTML provides you with a lot of useful elements for text formatting. It allows to make your text bold, italic, marked and much, much more. Of course, this is all for a reason - to get the important points across to the reader. ### Bold and Strong You can make your text bold by using the `` element. This makes words bold, and provides strong emphasis to a certain word or phrase.
Example: ```html
The most important part of your code is the end, cause it can affect everything!
```
Note: You can also use `` as well. They both bold the text. ### Italics and Emphasis If you want to write your messages in italics, you can use the `` element.
Example: ```html
I hate it when I start talking in Latin, it makes me Lorem Ipsum!
```
Note: You can also use `` as well. While visually, they are the same, the semantic definitions are different. `` is generally used for emphasis, while `` can be used for foreign words, etc. ### Small It makes your text smaller than the normal font size. This element's meaning was changed in HTML5 - it now represents side-comments and small print.
Example: ```html
Normal, small, normal, small!
``` ### Marked The element `` makes your text marked. In other words, it makes your text highlighted. You can use it to tell readers things of importance.
Example: ```html
The land of HTML is a strange and mysterious land, and it's our job to explore it all!
``` ### Deleted The element `` shows strikethrough. It's useful if you want to ~~corroct~~ correct something.
Example: ```html
WWI started in ~~1913~~ 1914.
``` ### Underlined Underlining is a tricky thing in HTML. The best way to underline your code is to use CSS and set `text-decoration` value to "underline". If you need to, the default for the element `` will underline your code.
Example: ```html
I like drawing lines under my words
```
Note: `` actually means "Inserted", and is intended to depict inserted text.
Note 2:`` used to be underline in HTML 4.01, but in HTML5 it was redefined to show that a word had some form of non-textual annotation applied. The default of `` is a simple underline, but this can be changed using CSS. ### Subscripted Using the element `_{` makes your text subscripted (ie. it becomes smaller and gets shown near the bottom).

Example:
```html
I use subscripts in math! For example, I can say x₁!
```

### Superscripted
If you want to make your text superscripted (ie. it becomes smaller but gets shown near the top), use the element `_{`!

Example:
```html
10² = 100
```}}