HTML Text Style

When you want to add style to your text in HTML such as bold, italic or underline, you need to insert a code before and after the section of text you want to be affected by the format. There are many other HTML text style codes than the 3 examples above.

How to add HTML text style in your website

In this example, I will make two words in the page bold:

<html>
<head>
<title>html text style</title>
</head>
<body>
Here are 3 <b>words in bold</b> text.
</body>
</html>

When adding HTML text style to your content, don't forget closing the styling tag with a </TAG>. If you forget the closing tag, all the text on the page after the opening tag will be bold.

Here's a table with all the HTML text style tags available. There are all inserted in the same way we did the bold tag in the previous example.

TAGHTML text style
<b>This makes text bold
<i>This makes text italic
<u>This makes text underlined
<big>This makes text big
<em>This makes text emphasized
<small>This makes text small
<strong>This makes text strong
<sub>This makes text subscripted
<sup>This makes text superscripted
<ins>This makes text inserted
<del>This makes text deleted

Note on the "sup" and "sub" tags

When reading a book, you often see words with a number over them giving a reference to the bottom on the page. Here's an example:

...the author1 of this book...

botom of the page:
1 Name of the autor

Using HTML text style tags is an efficient way of formatting your text but if you have a big website and want to make changes to all your pages at once, using CSS styles would be a better idea. If you want to create pages with HTML only, this is the way to go to add a little life to your writings!


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