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Bold, Italics, Sub/Superscript

In this lesson, we'll continue our look at the basic text formatting tags available to you in HTML

Bold Text

You can make text stand out by using the bold tag.

In your Editor, highlight the text you want to make bold
From the menu bar, click on Format > Bold
The two <B></B> tags will surround your highlighted text
Save your work and view the results in your browser

Bold Text

Italics

The HTML tag to make text italic is as simple as the <B> tag for bold text. With your HTML editor, do the following:

Highlight the text for the italics
From the menu bar, click on Format > Italics
The two <I></I> tags will surround your highlighted text
Save your work and view the results in your browser

Subscript

Subscript is text that appears below normal text. Like this:

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You can have Subscript in your HTML code quite easily. To format text as subscript using your HTML editor, do this:

Highlight the text you want to turn into subscript
From the menu bar, click on Format > Subscript
The two <SUB></SUB> tags will surround your highlighted text
Save your work and view the results in your browser

Superscript

Superscript is text that is raised slightly above the centre. Like this

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To format text as superscript using your HTML editor, do this:

Highlight the text you want to turn into superscript
From the menu bar, click on Format > Superscript
The two <SUP></SUP> tags will surround your highlighted text
Save your work and view the results in your browser

In the next lesson, we'll take a look at the FONT tag.

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