Structural Text Elements

Structural text elements are a mixture of format and content elements. The common denominator is that none of them specify exact presentation characteristics:

<BIG></BIG>

Big text

<SMALL></SMALL>

Small text

<EM></EM>

Emphasized text

<STRONG></STRONG>

Strong text

<CITE></CITE>

Citation

<KBD></KBD>

Keyboard (user input for documentation)

<SAMP></SAMP>

Sample (software output for documentation)

<CODE></CODE>

Code examples (programming examples for documentation)

You can specify the display characteristics of structural elements using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), discussed later in the course.