Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Chapter 10. Text Elements

This chapter gets to the real meat and potatoes of document markup: elements used to structure text content. It’s no surprise that nearly half of all the elements in the (X)HTML Recommendation are introduced in this chapter. The elements and discussions are organized as follows:

Block elements		Generic elements
h#	Heading	div	Block division
p	Paragraph	span	Span of inline content
pre	Preformatted text	Lists
address	Contact information	ul	Unordered list
blockquote	Lengthy quotation	ol	Ordered list
Inline elements		li	List item
abbr	Abbreviation	dl	Definition list
acronym	Acronym	dt	Term
cite	Citation or reference	dd	Definition
code	Code fragment	menu	Menu list
dfn	Defining term	dir	Directory
em	Emphasized text	Presentational elements
q	Short inline quotation	b	Bold
strong	Strongly emphasized	big	Big text
samp	Sample output	i	Italic
kbd	Text entered by a user	s	Strike-through
var	Variable or program argument	strike	Strike-through
sub	Subscript	tt	Teletype
sup	Superscript	u	Underlined
Line breaks
br	Inserts line break	font	Font face, color, and size
Edit notation		basefont	Sets default font face
ins	Inserted text	nobr	No break
del	Deleted text	wbr	Word break
		hr	Horizontal rule