HTML Text Formatting

HTML provides tags to format text, giving it semantic meaning or visual styling.

Formatting Tags

Tag	Result	Purpose
`<b>`	Bold	Visual bold (no semantic)
`<strong>`	Strong	Bold + important meaning
`<i>`	Italic	Visual italic (no semantic)
`<em>`	Emphasis	Italic + emphasized meaning
`<mark>`	Highlight	Highlighted text
`<del>`	~~Deleted~~	Struck-through text
`<ins>`	Inserted	Underlined/inserted text
`<sub>`	H₂O	Subscript
`<sup>`	x²	Superscript

Example

<p>This is <strong>very important</strong> and <em>emphasized</em> text.</p>
<p>The price was <del>$99</del> now only <ins>$49</ins>!</p>
<p>Water formula: H<sub>2</sub>O</p>
<p>Area = r<sup>2</sup></p>
<p>Search term: <mark>HTML tutorial</mark></p>

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