Sections of text can be marked to be formatted as they appear in the file. <pre> for preformatted and <blockquote> which also indents.
"Trust your browser":
Logical Styles:
<dfn>, <em>, <cite>and <var> typically displayed in italics.
<code>,<kbd>,<samp> typically displayed in fixed-width font.
<strong> typically displayed in bold.
Physical Styles:
<b> bold
<i> italic
<tt> typewriter - fixed-width font
Escape sequences for characters used for tags
&lt for <
&gt for >
&amp for &
&quot for "
Additional escape sequences support special characters, such as &reg for the Registered Trademark symbol and &copy for the Copyright symbol.

See also color IMAGE Foil 11 Formatting a Web Page: More on Text

From Preparing Web Pages - HTML Presentation: Preparing Web Pages with HTML -- Fall Semester 96. by Nancy McCracken-Foils prepared December 5 1996


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