What Is Rich Text HTML?
Computer users can utilize several methods to add style and format to their text and webpage documents. Rich text and HTML are two common tools that accomplish this task. Although similar, they differ in key ways.
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Function
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Rich text and HTML are both files types and technologies that allow users to add format to text. While some programs can create both file types, rich text applies mostly to text-only documents such as letters or papers, while HTML is the basis of a webpage.
Features
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Rich text and HTML allow users to create bold, underlined, italicized and colored text of various fonts and sizes. Website creators can do more than text effects with HTML, however. With HTML, the user can add images, hyperlinks and media such as audio or video.
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Benefits
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Both rich text and HTML allow users can customize a document's appearance and organize text with elements such as headings or lists. HTML is especially useful when a website owner wishes to create a functional website that is different from other websites.
Editing
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With some text editing programs, the user can apply effects directly to the text as they type it by utilizing a rich text toolbar. Users may create HTML documents in a similar manner but the options exist to craft HTML webpages using direct HTML code. These changes are not immediately visible.
Conversion
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Depending on the program, the user may be able to open an existing rich text document and save it as an HTML webpage. The same may be true in reverse if the user is treating the word program as a WYSIWYG editor and not working with the HTML code directly.
Considerations
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Email programs such as Thunderbird, Eudora or Outlook typically support HTML and rich text in addition to plain text messages. Users can use either of these formatting technologies to add to their content in the message composition screen.
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