Physical Character formatting

Physical style tags indicate exactly how text is to formatted. For example Bold, Underline.

The following HTML tags are examples:

• Bold <b>
• Italics <i>
• Underline <u>
• Fixed width <tt>
• Strike Through <s>
• Bigger print <big>
• Smaller print <small>
• Subscript <sub>
• Superscript <sup>

Examples of these tag in use:

• Bold

  <b>
  This is bold text.
  </b>
  

  which looks like this in HTML

  This is bold text.
  

• Italics

  <i>
  This is italic text.
  </i>
  

  which looks like this in HTML

  This is italic text.
  

• Underline

  <u>
  This is text is underlined.
  </u>
  

  which looks like this in HTML

  This is text is underlined.
  

• Fixed width

  <tt>
  This is fixed width text.
  </tt>
  

  which looks like this in HTML

  This is fixed width text.
  

• Strike Through

  <s>
  This is text is struck through.
  </s>
  

  which looks like this in HTML

  This is text is struck through.
  

• Bigger print

  This is normal text.
  <big>
  This is bigger text.
  </big>
  

  which looks like this in HTML

  This is normal text. This is bigger text.
  

• Smaller print

  This is normal text.
  <small>
  This is smaller text.
  </small>
  

  which looks like this in HTML

  This is normal text. This is smaller text.
  

• Subscript

  X<sub>1</sub> is subcripted (1).
  

  which looks like this in HTML

  X₁ is subscripted (1).
  

• Superscript

  X<sup>2</sup>. the squared (2) is superscripted.
  

  which looks like this in HTML

  X². the squared (2) is superscripted.
  

Fractions can be made up with Sub/Superscripts. For example:

<sup>1</sup><sub>2</sub>

gives

¹₂