HTML Mark Tag

In HTML, the <mark> is used to highlight or mark the portion of text in order to show the importance of the text.

• It is recommended not to use <mark> tag to highlight the syntax instead use <span> tag with its CSS Properties.
• The <mark> tag is used to show the text or content of the document relevant to the user's current activity.
• When the <mark> tag is used inside <q> or <blockquote> tag then it generally indicates the text which is of special interest; though it does not mark the original document.
• The <mark> tag perform similarly like you are marking with a highlighter in your book the content of your interest

The <mark> tag requires the start(opening) tag and end(closing) tag. The basic example of the same is given below:

<mark>
...content here
</mark>

Below we have a basic example for this tag.

Given below is the usage of <mark> tag to mark the search result within a passage

<p><mark class="match">HTML</mark> is known as Hypertext Markup Language.</P>
<p><mark class="match">HTML</mark> is used to create static web pages

This attribute does not have specific attributes, the <mark> tag supports global and event attributes.

Following browsers support this attribute:

• Firefox 4+
• Google Chrome 6+
• Internet Explorer 9+
• Apple Safari 5+
• Opera 11.1+