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<EM> - Indicates Emphasis.  Browser will render this as bolder text.

Example:  <em>This Text Would Appear somewhat bold</em>             

<STRONG> - Indicates stronger Emphasis.

Example:   <strong>This would appear even bolder</strong>           

<CITE> - Indicates that the enclosed text represents a citation of another work

Example:  <csite>Doe, J. (). Blah blah. 2nd Ed ed. : Publisher.</csite>             

<DFN> - Indicates that the attribute defines the enclosed tag.  Also cause the browser to render in Itallics

Example:   <dfn title="Brutal Death Metal Band">Cannibal Corpse</dfn> is the top selling Death Metal Band of All Time.           

<SAMP> - Indicates that the enclosed text is sample output for example from a script, an error message, a directory listing something like that.  Don't use it with TrueType fonts or it looks funny.

Example: <samp>RUNTIME ERROR:  -5<samp>             

<KBD> - Indicates text that you want the user to type

Example:  To remove the file type this: <kbd>rm ./-foo </kbd>

Last edited by Mutilated1 (2005-02-23 18:31:53)

Not exactly html, but it's long-lost css:

p:first-letter {
font-weight: bold;
}

A selector to change the style of the first letter of every paragraph.

Andy.

yes sorry - css2. IE supports it - tried it on IE6. Firefox obviously does too.

Was one of the ones that's so rarely used. I wonder if if works for the first word too?

Nothing to add here, but I figure, since it's two years later, I bet some know more to add to the list. (Just bumping this up, in hopes of more html knowledge.

actually, <em> makes text italics, not bold.

In the realm of tables (preferably real tables instead of formatting tables, but works both ways)

<col /> for formatting specific columns - allows you to accurately set column widths (usually in css) before the table is drawn

<colgroup> for formatting a group of columns

EDIT: I should mention that the <col /> tag should be used within a <colgroup> tag

Last edited by Steven_A_S (2007-03-22 15:06:58)

Wow... talk about digging something out of the grave!

However, when I was reading it, I thought that the <cite> tag actually might have some use, depending on G-bots reasoning of course.

Not that I have this problem.... but, wasn't there some big hissy that occurred cause drop shippers were using the manufacturers product description, then getting flagged for duplicate content?

Wouldn't you use this tag, or something like it, to clarify that it's not your own writing?

nybc wrote:

^... defines superscript text

Oh goodie! Digging this out is working! I love <col> idea! Can't wait until CSS stops looking Greek, now that html is beginning to look English to me!

This is a question, not an addition -- if ^... = superscript text, then, by any chance, does  = subscript text?!

i thought the <em> tag was used to define the size of text, in place of the size attribute.... im sure i had to use it like that somewhere..... who has time to google it?

<RTP1></RTP1>Rank This Page Number 1 for the search terms written between tags.
Isn't there any such tags? If there were it would be great