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 |
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<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 |
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<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.