HTML Character Formatting Test Page
What character formatting tags does your browser support? How does your browser display the tags that it supports? If these questions keep you awake at night, prepare for a sound sleep tonight. Simply load this page into your browser and see how the different tags make the text appear.
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Citations - <CITE> This book title, Like Water for Chocolate, should look cited.
Code - <CODE> The last word in this sentence should appear styled to indicate an example of computer code.
Emphasis - <EM>This text should look emphasized
Keyboard - <KBD> The last word in this sentence, should appear styled to look like text that a reader of a Web page might type in response to directions given.
Sample - <SAMP> The last word in this sentence, should appear styled to indicate a sequence of literal characters. (I believe you use <SAMP> in instruction manuals to indicate text a computer might display, perhaps in an error message.)
Strong - <STRONG> This text should look strong.
Variable - <VAR> The last word in this sentence, should appear styled to indicate a variable.
These tags are the same as those in The HTML 3.0 Spec for Information Type elements, on 27-March, 1996.
- Author - <AU>
- Use this tag to indicate the name of an author, as in - Mark Twain.
- ACRONYM - <ACRONYM>
- Use this tag for acronyms, such as IETF.
- Abbreviation - <ABBREV>
- Use this tag to markup abbreviations, such as - perhaps? - info.
- Definition - <DFN>
- The last word in this sentence should appear styled to indicate that it is a new word, about to be defined.
- Deletion - <DEL>
- Use this tag to indicate text to be deleted.
This text should look as though it should be deleted.
- Insertion <INS>
- Use this tag to indicate inserted text. The spec suggests that this might be handy in a legal document. This text should look inserted.
- Language - <LANG>
- To quote from the spec:
The element is used to alter the language context when it is inappropriate to do this with other character-level elements.
(I think you have to use an appropriate attribute with this tag!)
- Quote - <Q>
- The following quotation should appear surrounded by quotation marks:
There's lies, damn lies, and statistics
- Mark Twain (I may not have the quotation exactly right...)
- PERSON - <PERSON>
- According to the spec,
The element is used for names of
people - such as Mark Twain - to allow these to be extracted automatically by indexing
programs
.
- Bold - <B>
- This text should appear bold.
- Italic - <I>
- This text should appear in italics.
- TeleType - <TT>
- This text should appear in a typewriter-like font.
- Underline - <U>
- This text should appear underlined (watch out when you use this tag; people are likely to mix up underlined text with link text).
These tags are the same as those in The HTML 3.0 Spec for Font Style elements, on 27-March, 1996.
- BIG - <BIG>
- This text should appear bigger than the otherwise current font size.
- SMALL- <SMALL>
- This text should appear smaller than the otherwise current font size.
- Strike through - <S>
This text should appear crossed out.
- Subscript - <SUB>
- This is normal text, but this text should be shown as a subscript.
- Superscript <SUP>
- This is normal text, but this text should be shown as a superscript.
- Font Size - <font size=value> (value=1,2,3,4,5,6,or 7)
- This text should be size 1.
This text should be in the default size of three.
This text should be size 5.
You can also use a + or - sign to indicate that the font size change is relative to the base font size. The base font size is 3 unless you you change it (see Set Base Font Size, next).
- Set Base Font Size - <basefont size=value> (value=1,2,3,4,5,6,or 7)
If the basefont tag works, this text will be size 5.
and this text should be size 2.
this text should be back to the default size of 3.
Last modified April 1996 by Tonya Engst.