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Text attributes

In computing, text attributes are some data associated with particular chunks of text, except of its characters itself. Say, something more than a plain text.See formatted text for text attributes in word processing. See HTML#Elements and HTML attribute about text attributes in HTML. See text mode for hardware-implemented screen text attributes; particularly, VGA compatible text mode describes such text attributes on PC compatibles.

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In computing, text attributes (in the sense of attributes of a text) are some data associated with particular chunks of text, except of its characters itself. Say, something more than a plain text.

Also, a text attribute may refer to an attribute (e.g. to an XML attribute), those value consists of a text.