No doubt, even in our multimedia-based web era, text is an indispensable part of web pages. As you already saw in Listing: Rendering long text, plain text without any markup is understood by the browser and rendered with replacing multiple spaces (including white space characters, such as tab) and line breaks with a single space character.

As you experienced, Exercise: Adding inline and block elements to our html used a few special markups, such as <strong> and <em>, to add special importance to their content and let the browser represent them with some kind of highlighting, such as bold and italic formatting.

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