The following elements set text formatting characteristics such as size, weight and style, but their use is discouraged by the HTML 4.0 specification in favour of style sheets.

<b> | <basefont> | <big> | <font> | <i> | <s> | <small> | <strike> | <tt> | <u>

<b>...</b>
Bold text.
Starting/ending tag	Required/Required
Attributes	Attributes %coreattrs, %i18n, %events
Empty	No
Example	<b>This is bold text</b>
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<basefont>
Defines the base font size.
Starting/ending tag	Required/Required
Deprecated	Deprecated size="...": Font size (between 1 and 7 or relative, for instance +3). color="...": Font colour. face="...": Font type.
Empty	Yes
Notes	Deprecated in favour of style sheets. In XHTML 1.0, this tag should be in the form <basefont /> to ensure compatibility with older browsers.
Example	<basefont size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica">
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<big>...</big>
Large text.
Starting/ending tag	Required/Required
Attributes	Attributes %coreattrs, %i18n, %events
Empty	No
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<font>...</font>
Change the font size and colour.
Starting/ending tag	Required/Required
Attributes	Attributes %coreattrs, %i18n, %events
Deprecated	Deprecated size="...": Font size (between 1 to 7 or relative, for instance +3). color="...": Font colour. face="...": Font type.
Empty	No
Notes	Deprecated in favour of style sheets.
Example	<font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica">This is formatted text</font>
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<i>...</i>
Italicised text.
Starting/ending tag	Required/Required
Attributes	Attributes %coreattrs, %i18n, %events
Empty	No
Example	<i>This is italicised text</i>
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<s>...</s>
Strikethrough text
Starting/ending tag	Required/Required
Attributes	Attributes %coreattrs, %i18n, %events
Empty	No
Notes	Deprecated in favour of style sheets.
Example	<s>This is strikethrough text</s>
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<small>...</small>
Small text.
Starting/ending tag	Required/Required
Attributes	Attributes %coreattrs, %i18n, %events
Empty	No
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<strike>...</strike>
Strikethrough text.
Starting/ending tag	Required/Required
Attributes	Attributes %coreattrs, %i18n, %events
Empty	No
Notes	Deprecated in favour of style sheets.
Example	<strike>This is strikethrough text</strike>
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<tt>...</tt>
Teletype of monospaced text style.
Starting/ending tag	Required/Required
Attributes	Attributes %coreattrs, %i18n, %events
Empty	No
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<u>...</u>
Underlined text.
Starting/ending tag	Required/Required
Attributes	Attributes %coreattrs, %i18n, %events
Empty	No
Notes	Deprecated in favour of style sheets.
Example	<u>This is underlined text</u>
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