---
title: '<small>: 덧붙임 글 요소'
slug: Web/HTML/Element/small
tags:
  - Element
  - HTML
  - HTML text-level semantics
  - Reference
  - Web
translation_of: Web/HTML/Element/small
---
<div>{{HTMLRef}}</div>

<p><span class="seoSummary"><strong>HTML <code>&lt;small&gt;</code></strong> <strong>요소</strong>는 덧붙이는 글이나, 저작권과 법률 표기 등의 작은 텍스트를 나타냅니다.</span> 기본 상태에서 <code>&lt;small&gt;</code>은 자신의 콘텐츠를 한 사이즈 작은 글꼴(<code>small</code>에서 <code>x-small</code> 등)로 표시하지만, 스타일을 적용한 후에도 글씨 크기가 작을 필요는 없습니다.</p>

<div>{{EmbedInteractiveExample("pages/tabbed/small.html", "tabbed-shorter")}}</div>

<p class="hidden">The source for this interactive example is stored in a GitHub repository. If you'd like to contribute to the interactive examples project, please clone <a href="https://github.com/mdn/interactive-examples">https://github.com/mdn/interactive-examples </a> and send us a pull request.</p>

<table class="properties">
 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row"><a href="/ko/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Content_categories">콘텐츠 카테고리</a></th>
   <td><a href="/ko/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Content_categories#플로우_콘텐츠">플로우 콘텐츠</a>, <a href="/ko/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Content_categories#구문_콘텐츠">구문 콘텐츠</a>.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">가능한 콘텐츠</th>
   <td><a href="/ko/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Content_categories#구문_콘텐츠">구문 콘텐츠</a>.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">태그 생략</th>
   <td>{{no_tag_omission}}</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">가능한 부모 요소</th>
   <td><a href="/ko/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Content_categories#구문_콘텐츠">구문 콘텐츠</a>를 허용하는 모든 요소, 또는 <a href="/ko/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Content_categories#플로우_콘텐츠">플로우 콘텐츠</a>를 허용하는 모든 요소.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">가능한 ARIA 역할</th>
   <td>모두</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">DOM 인터페이스</th>
   <td>{{domxref("HTMLElement")}}</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<h2 class="editable" id="특성">특성</h2>

<p>이 요소는 <a href="/ko/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes">전역 특성</a>만 포함합니다.</p>

<h2 id="예제">예제</h2>

<h3 id="기본_사용법">기본 사용법</h3>

<pre class="brush: html">&lt;p&gt;This is the first sentence.
 &lt;small&gt;This whole sentence is in small letters.&lt;/small&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
</pre>

<p>{{EmbedLiveSample("기본_사용법")}}</p>

<h3 id="CSS_예제">CSS 예제</h3>

<pre class="brush: html">&lt;p&gt;This is the first sentence.
  &lt;span style="font-size:0.8em"&gt;This whole sentence is in small
  letters.&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
</pre>

<p>{{EmbedLiveSample("CSS_예제")}}</p>

<h2 id="명세">명세</h2>

<table class="standard-table">
 <thead>
  <tr>
   <th scope="col">Specification</th>
   <th scope="col">Status</th>
   <th scope="col">Comments</th>
  </tr>
 </thead>
 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('HTML WHATWG', 'semantics.html#the-small-element', '&lt;small&gt;')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('HTML WHATWG')}}</td>
   <td></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('HTML5 W3C', 'textlevel-semantics.html#the-small-element', '&lt;small&gt;')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('HTML5 W3C')}}</td>
   <td></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('HTML4.01', 'present/graphics.html#edef-SMALL', '&lt;small&gt;')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('HTML4.01')}}</td>
   <td></td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<h2 id="참고">참고</h2>

<p>{{htmlelement("b")}}, {{htmlelement("i")}}, <code>&lt;small&gt;</code> 요소는 구조와 표현을 분리하는 원칙을 위배하는 것처럼 보이지만, 셋 모두 HTML5에서 유효합니다. 작성자는 <code>&lt;small&gt;</code>과 CSS 중 어느 것을 사용할지 결정하기 전에 심사숙고해야 합니다.</p>

<h2 id="브라우저_호환성">브라우저 호환성</h2>



<p>{{Compat("html.elements.small")}}</p>

<h2 id="같이_보기">같이 보기</h2>

<ul>
 <li>{{HTMLElement("b")}}</li>
</ul>