Inline tags

Inline tags are specially designated components within a string that contain formatting instructions or other information. In some formats they are also used to designate placeholders that are replaced at runtime with the corresponding data. The exact formatting of tags depends on the text format used. In HTML and XML, tags are always enclosed in angle brackets, but other methods are also conceivable.

You can also define personal tags, for example to protect a product name (see Inline Patterns).

Some examples:

HTML uses the and tags to format bold text.

This <b>text<b> is bold.

The IMG tag is used in HTML to embed images.

<img height=351 src="home_files/logo_mid4.gif" alt="Logo" width=153>

In XML, the meaning of the tags depends on the XML application

This is  an inline tag

Example for placeholder tags

{'Number'} files were deleted from the {'Path'} folder!