HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro: Part 2

Chapter 3: Styling Text

Chapter 3 about styling text is really obsolete. You can still use almost all tags mentioned in the chapter but many are no longer part of HTML5 and should be replaced by styling with CSS. From that point of view this chapter is not a good guide. A short list below.

• Outdated:
  • <big>
  • <small>
  • <font>
  • <basefont>
  • <blink> : doesn’t even work in my browser, was a Netscape proprietary tag
  • <strike> : replaced by <s> in HTML5
• Still valid HTML5
  • <i>
  • <b>
  • <sub>
  • <sup>
  • <u>
  • <code>
  • <pre>