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Text Formatting

HTML formatting tags for bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, and more.

Basic Text Formatting Tags

Tag Output Description
<b>Bold textBold (no importance)
<strong>Strong textBold + important
<i>Italic textItalic (no importance)
<em>Emphasized textItalic + emphasis
<u>Underline textUnderlined
<s>StrikethroughCrossed out
<mark>HighlightedHighlighted text
<sup>x2Superscript
<sub>H2OSubscript
<b>Bold text</b>
<strong>Strong text</strong>
<i>Italic text</i>
<em>Emphasized text</em>
<u>Underline text</u>
<s>Strikethrough</s>
<mark>Highlighted</mark>
x<sup>2</sup>
H<sub>2</sub>O

Blockquote & Abbreviation

"The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it."
— Dennis Ritchie

The W3C defines web standards. HTML is the backbone of the web.

<blockquote>
  "The only way to learn a new programming language..."
  <cite>— Dennis Ritchie</cite>
</blockquote>

<p>The <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr>
defines web standards.</p>