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Highlighting

HTML has a number of elements for highlighting text, which can be categorized as logical markup and visual markup elements. Some of the highlighting elements have not yet been ratified. These elements are indicated with the word proposed in the lists below.

The following elements are logical markup elements:

<CITE>...</CITE>

citation

<CODE>...</CODE>

Code

<DFN>...</DFN>

defining instance (proposed)

<EM>...</EM>

Emphasised Text

<KBD>...</KBD>

Keyboard

<SAMP>...</SAMP>

literal characters

<STRIKE>...</STRIKE>

(proposed)

<STRONG>...</STRONG>

strong emphasis

<VAR>...</VAR>

variable name

The following elements are visual markup elements:

<B>...</B>

bold

<I>...</I>

italic

<TT>...</TT>

fixed-width

<U>...</U>

(proposed)

Logical markup is generally preferred to visual markup as the interpretation is less rigid and more configurable.

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
Note: this HTML document was generated in December 1994 directly from the LaTeX source files using LaTeX2HTML. It was formatted into our standard page layout using the Template Toolkit. The document is mainly of historical interest as obviously many of the sites mentioned have long since disappeared.