Web Foundations/Inline Elements

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This lesson introduces HTML text elements.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for this lesson include:

• Use the most current version of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML5) to create Web pages.
• Design Web pages to industry standards.

Readings

1. Wikipedia: Inline element
2. Wikibooks: HyperText Markup Language/Text Formatting

Examples

Bold

Set font to boldface where possible.

<b>text</b>

Example: text

Italic

Set font to italic where possible.

<i>text</i>

Example: text

Strong

Strong emphasis (conventionally displayed bold). An aural user agent may use different voices for emphasis.

<strong>text</strong>

Example: text

Emphasis

Emphasis (conventionally displayed in italics). An aural user agent may use different voices for emphasis.

<em>text</em>

Example: text

Code

A code snippet. Conventionally rendered in a mono-space font.

<code>text</code>

Example: text

Line Break

A forced line break.

text<br>more text

Example: text
more text

Activities

1. Complete the tutorial TutorialsPoint: HTML Formatting
2. Complete the tutorial TutorialsPoint: HTML Phrase Tags

Key Terms

bold tag

character set

em tag

fixed-width font

inline element

strong tag

text-level element

see inline element

Unicode

References

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