# String — HTML wrapper methods

> > [!WARNING] > Deprecated. Avoid these methods. > > They are of limited use, as they are based on a very old HTML standard and provide only a subset of the currently available HTML tags and attributes. Many of them create deprecated or non-standard markup today. In addition, they do string concatena

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&gt; [!WARNING] &gt; Deprecated. Avoid these methods. &gt; &gt; They are of limited use, as they are based on a very old HTML standard and provide only a subset of the currently available HTML tags and attributes. Many of them create deprecated or non-standard markup today. In addition, they do string concatenation without any validation or sanitation, which makes them a potential security threat when directly inserted using innerHTML. Use DOM APIs such as document.createElement() instead.

{{jsxref("String.prototype.anchor()")}} {{deprecated_inline}} : (hypertext target) {{jsxref("String.prototype.big()")}} {{deprecated_inline}} : {{HTMLElement("big")}} {{jsxref("String.prototype.blink()")}} {{deprecated_inline}} : {{jsxref("String.prototype.bold()")}} {{deprecated_inline}} : {{HTMLElement("b")}} {{jsxref("String.prototype.fixed()")}} {{deprecated_inline}} : {{HTMLElement("tt")}} {{jsxref("String.prototype.fontcolor()")}} {{deprecated_inline}} : {{jsxref("String.prototype.fontsize()")}} {{deprecated_inline}} : {{jsxref("String.prototype.italics()")}} {{deprecated_inline}} : {{HTMLElement("i")}} {{jsxref("String.prototype.link()")}} {{deprecated_inline}} : (link to URL) {{jsxref("String.prototype.small()")}} {{deprecated_inline}} : {{HTMLElement("small")}} {{jsxref("String.prototype.strike()")}} {{deprecated_inline}} : {{HTMLElement("strike")}} {{jsxref("String.prototype.sub()")}} {{deprecated_inline}} : {{HTMLElement("sub")}} {{jsxref("String.prototype.sup()")}} {{deprecated_inline}} : {{HTMLElement("sup")}}

Note that these methods do not check if the string itself contains HTML tags, so it's possible to create invalid HTML

The only escaping they do is to replace " in the attribute value (for {{jsxref("String/anchor", "anchor()")}}, {{jsxref("String/fontcolor", "fontcolor()")}}, {{jsxref("String/fontsize", "fontsize()")}}, and {{jsxref("String/link", "link()")}}) with &amp;quot;.

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