Formatted text

Formatted text is text whose characters or passages carry presentation information, such as typeface, size, color, emphasis, or paragraph alignment. Its appearance is distinct from the words themselves.

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Plain text: Text represented as characters without embedded presentation instructions. It separates the words from the presentation information that formatted text carries.
Cascading Style Sheets: A style-sheet language that describes the presentation of structured documents, especially web pages. CSS assigns visual properties to text and resolves competing style rules.
Word processor: An application for creating, editing, and formatting text documents. Word processors expose formatting controls for letters, reports, and other documents.
Unformatted text: Text presented without explicit styling beyond the basic characters and line breaks it contains. It lacks the presentation information that distinguishes formatted text.
Character formatting: Presentation settings applied to individual characters or spans, including typeface, size, color, and emphasis. It governs the appearance of selected portions within a passage.
HTML: The markup language used to structure content on the web. HTML provides elements and attributes that can mark or directly style text.
Desktop publishing: The use of computer software to compose and lay out documents for publication. It relies on precise text formatting to control page composition and typography.
Accessible rich internet applications: Web applications that use accessibility attributes to expose interface roles, states, and relationships to assistive technology. Accessible interfaces ensure visual text styling does not hide meaning from assistive technology.
Paragraph formatting: Presentation settings applied to paragraphs, including alignment, indentation, spacing, and line height. It controls layout at the paragraph level rather than the character level.
Rich Text Format: A document file format for exchanging formatted text and basic page-layout information. RTF stores formatting instructions alongside text for transfer between applications.