HTML 'del' and 'ins' Tags/Elements

Q

What Are HTML "del" and "ins" Tags/Elements?

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A

"del" and "ins" elements are inline elements that you can use to specify text to be treated as deleted text and inserted text respectively. Here are basic rules about "del" and "ins" elements:

  • "del" and "ins" elements are inline elements.
  • "del" and "ins" elements can not be used at block level.
  • Contents of "del" elements will be displayed with a strike through line.
  • Contents of "ins" elements will be displayed with an underscore line.

Here is a good tutorial example of "del" and "ins" elements:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
 <head>
  <title>DEL and INS Elements</title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <p>The <del>cat</del><ins>dog</ins> couldn't
   find <del>it's</del><ins>its</ins> bone.</p>
 </body>
</html>

If you save the above document as del_and_ins.html, and view it with Internet Explorer, you will see that the incorrect sentence is corrected with the help of "del" and "ins" elements as shown below:

HTML del and ins ELements - Track Changes
HTML del and ins ELements - Track Changes

 

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