Sometimes, when working with fonts (especially when making a page that deals with mathematics) people wish that they could make a letter or word above or below the normal text. A letter or word above the normal text is known as superscript and in order to do this there are a special set of commands that must be used. When you wish to start your superscript you merely enter an angle bracket “<“ then the letters SUP then an angle bracket “>”. Then you type the text that you want to be in Superscript form. After the text is done you tell the browser to make all text after that normal with an angle bracket “<“ followed by a slash “/” followed by the letters SUP followed by an angle bracket “>”. If you wanted a math problem on your page then the source code would look like this:
x<SUP>2</SUP>+y<SUP>2</SUP>=36
Text below the normal text area is called subscript. You do this the same way as you do superscript except that you replace the letters SUP with the letter SUB. For example, if you wanted another math problem on your page that uses subscript you would do this:
x<SUB>1</SUB>+x<SUB>2</SUB>=36
You can do anything that you think will look good or anything that you want using this type of text manipulation. The choice is up to you and the possibilities are endless.
