What does <ins> do?

  • Hi,
    I’ve had my WP blog up for about a month and am wondering what the ins tag is supposed to do. I see that it puts the current date and time in the HTML tag, but when I view a post, the part surrounded by the ins tag is just underlined; the date-time info doesn’t pop up on hover or anything else. How is it supposed to work?
    I’m running Firefox 0.8, if that makes a difference here.

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  • https://www.htmldog.com/reference/htmltags/ins/
    might help.

    The ins tag doesn’t really do anything by itself. It just means that this text was inserted in some previous revision of the text. It has a counterpart, del, which means that the text has been deleted (or is going to be deleted soon).
    You can style this with CSS to do whatever you want, of course. For example, some people like to stick a border-left of a different color onto paragraphs inside an ins tag, to call readers’ attention to the fact that there’s new text. On the flip side, it’s pretty common to put a line through anything inside a del tag.

    Thread Starter strunk

    (@strunk)

    Awesome. I’ve seen that usage of del tags for sure.
    By the way, I had to take the braces off of “ins” so it wouldn’t get parsed. I can avoid that by using backticks, right? If so would someone . . . umm . . . please tell me where to find the backtick on my keyboard? I’ve found the pipe and the tilde, but I swear I can’t find the backtick.

    On the US keyboard, it is the character above the tab key, and to the left of the numeral 1. You could always copy the word backticks with the backticks around it from above the text entry field on these forums here and paste it into the text entry field, like this :
    backticks.

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