I think that you misunderstand the purpose of these tags...
None of these tags are used to define visual styles on content because HTML has nothing to do with visual styles. It's a semantic language that is used to describe its content...
If you want to apply visual styling to your page, use CSS.
The abbr tag is used for abbreviations. Your example is invalid HTML, because use is not an abbreviation of html tags.
I think that you misunderstand the purpose of these tags...
None of these tags are used to define visual styles on content because HTML has nothing to do with visual styles. It's a semantic language that is used to describe its content...
If you want to apply visual styling to your page, use CSS.
The
abbr
tag is used for abbreviations. Your example is invalid HTML, becauseuse
is not an abbreviation ofhtml tags
.A valid use of
abbr
tag would be:The
ins
tag is used to represent inserted text. It it NOT used to apply underline to text. If you want to apply an underline to element text, use CSS.So a correct example of underlining text would be:
A correct example of using the
ins
tag might be to show document revisions:The
del
is the inverse ofins
, it is used to symbolise text that was removed:This tag is used all the time. A common example would be for discounted items on an ecommerce website:
If you want to apply a visual strikethrough style to your content, use CSS:
The
cite
tag is used to define the title of a creative work:If you want to apply visual italic style, use CSS:
If you want to emphasise a particular portion of text, use
em
tag: