XHTML Basics - Part 5 Introduction Formatting text refers to the ways of presenting text. For example, you may want to have text underline or bold. When you are writing a poem, you would want to put text in particular position on the line of the page; this is also a case of formatting. Formatting text with XHTML You can do limited formatting with XHTML. You are not even advised to do serious formatting with XHTML. If you think that your web page needs a lot of formatting (presentation), use what... Sign in to see full entry.