HTML is designed to be display device independent --that is,
the document can be displayed on any device (graphics, text only, Braille
reader, text-to-speech), and not just on our nice Windows machines.
COnsequently, HTML is a semantic markup language -- the
tags define logical structure of the documents -- paragraphs, lists,
divisions, blockquotes, headings, emphasized, etc -- and leaves the
rendering of this up to the browser. For exmaple, here are some
text-level markup examples, and the corresponding renderings
| <STRONG>strong emphasis</STRONG>
| strong emphasis
|
| <EM>regular emphasis</EM>
| regular emphasis
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| <CODE>computer code</CODE> example
| computer code example
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