HTML Elements and Attributes that Control the Visual Format, Style, Structure and Font of Text

Guest Author - Diane Cipollo

Below is a list of the most commonly used^*** html element tags that control the text on the webpage.

Note: Some attributes listed below have been depreciated in favor of Cascading Style Sheets.

Controls Visual Format, Style, Structure and Font of Text
Element	Opening Tag	Attributes	Closing Tag	Description
center	<center>	deprecated	</center>	Visual format - centers content on webpage
b	<b>		</b>	Text style - text with bold format
i	<i>		</i>	Text style - text with italic format
sub	<sub>		</sub>	Text style - places text below regular line of text
sup	<sup>		</sup>	Text style - places text above regular line of text
u	<u>	depreciated	</u>	Text style - text will be underlined
blockquote	<blockquote>		</blockquote>	Text structure - defines a section to be indented from both the left and right margins
br	<br>	clear="position"	None	Text structure - forces text to end and starts text on the next line align - set to left, right or all
em	<em>		</em>	Text structure - text with emphasis format
p	<p>	align="position"	Optional	Text structure - Specifies start and end of paragraph Forces a space between paragraphs align - set to left, center or right
strong	<strong>		</strong>	Text structure - text with strong format
font	<font>	depreciated face="?" size="?" color="color"	</font>	Text font modification - controls the typeface (font) on your webpage face - name of font size - size of font color - color of font**

^***A complete list of html element tags can be found at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/index/elements.html
^**Color can be set using color names (red, black, etc) or RGB color codes or hexidecimal color codes.