Maybe we just lived on different perspective having different stand on what gives us more attention to a certain formatting.
But with thorough searching I've found an article that might help the OP and other users here in forum that contains the good formatting between the bold, capitalized, underlined, and italicized on a good reading for web content.
Bold, Italics and Underlines: How to Use Them Effectively?And as stated in that article, underlines are only better for Links and SEO optimizations.
I don't think words in italic are more visible than underlined ones. So I'm not sure you're right to assume that's for this reason. Moreover underlined sentences are often used in titles, even in academic articles.
You'd be surprised, italics are for
emphasis. For instance:
Valentine's Day is serious business for couples.
Even without the bolding, it shifts attention to that word just by going through the sentence.
Thank you for the effort making my points clear and enhanced. I do also had researched for it recently yet forgot to edit the thread but then again thank you for both reminding and supporting the thread. Will update the thread now for new readers and re-readers.
I guess the OP didn't include both underlining and literally highlighted texts as it is somehow the same size and seems to not calls off attention as much as his tips did, because even I myself don't see underlining being worth to have enough attention especially if the post/replies were too long and the subject or idea to be embossed is in the middle of the context.
I also see that the OP's tips is mostly used in formats in the world of Academe/Universities, as it offers not to be so simple and not to be exaggerated at the same time.
I don't think words in italic are more visible than underlined ones. So I'm not sure you're right to assume that's for this reason. Moreover underlined sentences are often used in titles, even in academic articles.
The main difference between academic papers and web content is the media itself. Any contents and it's proper formatting bind with ergonomic correctness differs depending upon what platform and media you use. Therefore, underlines may be a better way to highlight on printed media such as on field on academe and even newspapers, but it isn't as good as bolding texts and italics in online platforms.
