Web Programming with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript

2.11 Editing Elements

We begin our discussion of individual phrasing elements with two elements that are used to indicate editing changes—the ins element (for insertions) and the del element (for deletions). First, let’s verify that they are indeed phrasing elements. Go to the W3C’s content model categories page (https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/dom.html#kinds-of-content) and hover your mouse over the diagram’s phrasing area. That should cause a list of all the phrasing elements to appear. In the list, look for the ins and del elements.

The ins element is meant to indicate text that has been inserted. If you’re an editor and you’re reviewing someone else’s written work, you’ll probably have suggestions for inserted text every now and then. To ...