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Notes Unit 3: Text Formatting

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

3.1 Character Elements
3.2 Look Elements
3.3 Summary

3.4 Keywords
3.5 Review Questions
3.6 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

 Recognize the character elements
 Describe the looking elements

Introduction

Generally, text is unformatted in your Web documents. However, to emphasize specific letters,
words, or phrases which reflects the characteristics about the text. Also, you can use some text
formatting options including boldfacing and italicizing. Depending on your browser, you may
also be able to add underlining to emphasize characters. There are two major classes of text
markup:

(a) Character Elements (Meaning)
(b) Look Elements (Formatting)

3.1 Character Elements

The character elements describe the type of the text formatting. It is also the treat as Logical codes
which shows the meaning of the text. For example, if you want to display some programming
code, with the help of <CODE> tag can be display. The same font also used with <PRE>; however,
<PRE> is for formatted text while the browser will format the text associated with the <CODE>.
These elements also called as Phrase elements. These elements require start and end tags. There
are no required HTML attributes for these elements.

<EM> Element

The <EM> element is an HTML tag that is used to specify emphasized text within an HTML
document. The <EM> basic emphasis typically rendered, in an italic font.

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