small tag (XHTML 1.0)

small text style

Topics

List of attributes
List of events

The small tag instructs your browser to render the text with a small font. You don't really have any control of just how small the font is going to be, since it's up to the user agent. In your current browser, it looks like this:

This text is small!

The big tag is very simple to use, and doesn't offer any really interesting attributes:

<small>This text is small!</small>

In most cases, you're better off using CSS on a span tag to decide the size of the text, which can be done with the font-size CSS property.

Attributes

Attribute	Deprecated	Required	Description
class			space-separated list of classes
dir			direction for weak/neutral text
id			document-wide unique id
lang			language code
style			associated style info
title			advisory title

Events

Event	Description
onclick	a pointer button was clicked
ondblclick	a pointer button was double clicked
onkeydown	a key was pressed down
onkeypress	a key was pressed and released
onkeyup	a key was released
onmousedown	a pointer button was pressed down
onmousemove	a pointer was moved within
onmouseout	a pointer was moved away
onmouseover	a pointer was moved onto
onmouseup	a pointer button was released