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>