Summary of Text Tags 107Formatting
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Indicates text that has been inserted into the document. It has no inherent style
qualities on its own, but may be used to indicate inserted text in a different color
via style sheet controls. It may be useful for legal documents and any instance in
which edits need to be tracked. Its counterpart is deleted text (). Both can
be used to indicate either inline or block-level elements.
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Indicates text that is typed on a keyboard. It is displayed in the browser’s mono-
space font (usually Courier). Some browsers also display it in bold.
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Delimits a short quotation that can be included inline, such as “to be or not to be.”
It differs from
, which is for longer quotations set off as a separate
paragraph element. It may be rendered with quotation marks.
Attributes
cite=url
Designates the source document from which the quotation was taken.
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Enclosed text is displayed as strike-through text (same as
but intro-
duced by later browser versions).
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Delimits sample output from programs, scripts, etc. Sample text is generally
displayed in a monospace font.
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Renders the type one font size smaller than the surrounding text. It is equivalent to
.