A superscipt span of text within a paragraph.
The <sup> element is a styling aid. In itself, it does not affect the content or style of the enclosed text, other than apply a default superscript CSS to the spanned text. When a class or id is applied to a <sup> element, the enclosed content may be additionally styled via CSS.
No attributes other than standard attributes are defined for <sup> elements.
<sup> elements may contain text, interleaved with the following immediate descendants.
| Element name | Description |
|---|---|
| <emph> | A emphasized span of text within a paragraph. |
| <graphic> | An inline graphic within the paragraph text. |
| <span> | A span of text within a paragraph. |
| <strong> | A strongly highlighted span of text within a paragraph. |
| <sub> | A subscript span of text within a paragraph. |
| <sup> | A superscript span of text within a paragraph. |
| Element name | Relation |
|---|---|
| <cell> | An enclosing cell in a table header or body. |
| <entry> | An enclosing entry in a list. |
| <para> | An enclosing paragraph. |
| <span> | An enclosing span. |
| <sub> | An enclosing sup. |
| <sup> | An enclosing sup. |
<document xmlns="http://boradoc.org/1.0"> <chapter> <para> E = mc <sup>2</sup> . </para> </chapter> </document>
The above BDML renders to the following:
E = mc2.