HTML text formatting

Emphasis is an important aspect of web design and HTML provides us with several elements to add emphasis to text.

By using the , , , and  elements, we can add meaning to our text and make it stand out to users:

The  tag is used to add emphasis to text, usually in the form of italic text.
The  tag is used to indicate that the text within it should be given strong emphasis.
The  element is used to highlight text, making it stand out from the surrounding text.
The  tag is another HTML emphasis tag that can be used to indicate that the text within it should be displayed in a smaller font size than the surrounding text.

Instructions

Inside our paragraph, let's format our fascinating destinations text to be italic.

To format a text to be italic, wrap your text in emphasis opening and closing tags. For example, to format a text that said "My Site" to be italic, write the following:

<em>My Site</em>

Let's also format our perfect vacation so that it's bold.

To format a text to be bold, wrap your text in bold emphasis opening and closing tags. For example:

<strong>My Site</strong>

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