While some of these HTML phrase elements are displayed in a similar manner to the <b>, <i>, <pre>, and <tt> elements you have already seen, they are designed for specific purposes. For example, the <em> and <strong> elements give text emphasis and strong emphasis respectively and there are several elements for marking up quotes.
We will see all phrase tags in this section with examples.
| Element | Example |
| <em> | <p>You <em>must</em> remember to close elements in XHTML.</p> |
| <strong> | <p>You <strong>must</strong> remember to close elements in XHTML.</p> |
| <abbr> | <p>I have a friend called <abbr title=”Deepak”>Deepu</abbr>.</p> |
| <acronym> | <p>This chapter covers marking up text in <acronym title=”Extensible Hypertext Markup Language”>XHTML</acronym>.</p> |
| <dfn> | <p>This tutorial teaches you how mark up your documents for the web using <dfn>XHTML</dfn>.</p> |
| <blockquote> | <p>The following description of XHTML is taken from the learning4uWorld Web site:</p>
<blockquote> XHTML 1.0 is the learning4u’s first Recommendation for XHTML, following on from earlier work on HTML 4.01, HTML 4.0, HTML 3.2 and HTML 2.0. </blockquote> |
| <cite> | <p>This HTML Tutorial is derived from <cite>World Wide Web Standard for HTML</cite>.</p> |
<em> Element
This is an HTML Phrase element that is used to make the text looks a little tilt like an italic look. Use the following example to understand
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Use of em element</title> </head> <body> <p>This is<em> em element text</em>provided by techTutorialsOnline</p> </body> </html>