HTML phrase tags are used to perform some specific operations like highlighting the text in web pages and adding quotations etc.
These HTML tags are displayed in a similar way as that of other basic HTML tags.
These HTML tags are displayed in a similar way as that of other basic HTML tags.
Following are the HTML phrase tags:
Marked Text:
In HTML <mark> element is use to highlight a section of text. The content written inside the open and close mark tag will display as yellow mark and it looks like a highlighter.
Text Abbreviation:
The <abbr> tag is used for indicating an abbreviation.
The <abbr> tag should be used when you want to add an abbreviation or an acronym of the word.
The title tag is used with the <abbr> attribute, which indicates the meaning of the abbreviation or acronym.
Text Direction:
The tag in HTML is used for overriding the text direction.
It stands for Bi-Directional Override.
Default text direction is from left to right and we can change the direction of text from right to left using .
It is used with dir attribute which has values :
ltr: Indicates the left-to-right direction of the text.
rtl: Indicates the right-to-left direction of the text.
Special Terms:
In HTML <dfn> element is used to indicate the term to be defined in the context of a definition sentence.
When the term is written inside <dfn> tag, browsers will come to know that nearby text contains a definition of the term.
Quoting Text:
The <blockquote> element in HTML is used to define long quotations.
If you want to add content from another source, you can add it using <blockquote>.
It changes its alignment to make it unique from others.
Blockquote element has the cite attribute whose value is the source of the quoted section.
Short Quotations:
In HTML <q> element is used when you want to add a double quote within a text or word.
Basically it is used to set the text inside the quotation marks.
It indicates that the enclosed text is a short inline quotation.
Text Citations:
The <cite> tag is used to specify the URL that points to the source document or page.
The content written inside the <cite> tag is rendered in italic font.
This cite attribute supports blockquote, del, ins, q elements.
Computer Code:
The code element indicates that the text inside <code>…</code> is a short part of computer code.
when you want to add programming code to your web page, you can use <code> element.
Keyboard Input:
The <kbd> tag in HTML defines a keyboard input.
It is used to identify text that represents user keyboard it means input text should be typed on a keyboard.
Text written inside <kbd> tags is displayed in the monospace font(all characters have the same width).
Program Output:
HTML <samp> tag is an inline element and used to indicate sample output from a computer program or script.
The content written inside <samp> tag is displayed in monospace format.
Address Text:
The HTML <address> tag is used to indicate an address, of the author of the current document, or a section of the document.
If it is used inside an <article> element then <address> tag denotes contact info for that article.
If it is used in <body> element then it describes contact info for the document.