The presentational markup is used to describe the appearance of text. However, it is recommended
that we use Cascading Style Sheets instead for handling all kinds of style information.
First we have the text styles: bold , italic , underlined , and strike-through /.
Bold and italic are still commonly used text styles, but underlined and both strike-through
tags have become deprecated. Like most other tags all of these come in pairs and contains
the text that they affect. We can also nest these together to combine different text styles.
Next, we have the teletype element which gives us a fixed-width typeface, just like
the preformatted tag. We also have the and elements,
which gives a way to change the font size. These elements can be nested several levels
deep in order to achieve a greater effect. Lastly, we have elements for rendering text
as either superscript or subscript .
The tag can be used to specify color, size, and typeface of text. The size can be
a value from 1 to 7. Or it can be specified relative to the current font size with a plus
or minus sign before the number. By default, the standard size is 3. The face attribute
can contain one or more font names in a comma separated list. If the user's computer doesn't
have the first font it will then try to use the next one and so on. The list here contains
common font names grouped together by their appearances.
The element provides a number of deprecated attributes for controlling the general appearance
of the webpage. We can change the default text color using the text attribute. We can
also add a background color or a background image which will be tiled in the background.