Formatting & Quotations

Text Formatting

<b>Bold text</b>
<strong>Important text</strong>
<i>Italic text</i>
<em>Emphasized text</em>
<mark>Highlighted text</mark>
<small>Smaller text</small>
<del>Deleted text</del>
<ins>Inserted text</ins>
<sub>Subscript</sub> and <sup>Superscript</sup>

• <b> is purely visual bold; <strong> also tells screen readers/search engines "this is important" — prefer <strong>
• <i> is purely visual italics; <em> means "emphasize this" and is read differently by screen readers — prefer <em>

Quotation Elements

<blockquote cite="https://source.com">
  A long quotation, set apart as its own block.
</blockquote>

<p>She said <q>this is a short inline quote</q> during the call.</p>

<p><abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr> is easy to learn.</p>

<address>
  Written by Start Your Path<br>
  support@goswamidigitalworld.com
</address>

• <blockquote> — a longer quote, browsers indent it by default
• <q> — a short inline quote, browsers add quotation marks automatically
• <abbr> — an abbreviation; the title shows on hover
• <address> — contact info for the page's author

Comments

Comments let you leave notes in your code that the browser ignores completely.

<!-- This is a comment, the browser skips it -->
<p>This paragraph is visible.</p>

Useful for explaining unusual code, temporarily disabling a block while testing, or marking sections in a long file. Note: comments are visible in "View Source" — never put sensitive info in them.