and ), with which a block of text can be rendered according to its meaning, and physical
style tags for directly italicizing or underlining text. HTML enables you to choose between logical styles,
which are relative to the text, or physical styles, which can be regarded as absolute.
Logical styles
Logical styles are contextual, rather than explicit. Choose a logical style when you want to ensure that the
meaning, rather than a specific look, is conveyed. Table 6-3 shows a listing of logical style tags and their
most common usage. Tags not supported through Dreamweaver??™s visual interface are noted.
TABLE 6-3
HTML Logical Style Tags
Tag Usage
Increases the size of the selected text relative to the surrounding text. Not currently supported
by Dreamweaver.
Citations, titles, and references; usually shown in italic.
For showing programming code, usually displayed in a monospaced font.
Defining instance; used to mark the introduction of a new term.
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