Marking document changes (<ins>, <del>)

These two elements are used to mark document changes regarding inserted or deleted parts of it, and in respect with the rest of the document.

They are often used as a part of a draft document, or a document in progress, subdued to changes.

Both elements can be used as a block level element or an inline level element, but not both. Thus they can be used within a paragraph or contain one, but both situations are not allowed.

The rendering of those two elements depends on the user agent but it should be obvious, i.e. <del> element might have text marked with strikethrough while <ins> element might change the color of text.

Syntax:

<ins></ins>, <del></del>

Attributes:

• id, class (document-wide identifiers)
• lang (language information), dir (text direction)
• title (element title)
• style (inline style information)
• cite (citation URI)
• datetime (data and time information)
• onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup (intrinsic events)

Example

HTML marking document changes elements:

 

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