May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context. Remarks are often printed only in draft versions of a document and suppressed otherwise. This may be controlled by the status attribute of an ancestor element (e.g., chapter), or by external processes, such as selecting an alternate stylesheet when publishing.

These elements contain remark: abbrev, acknowledgements, acronym, address, answer, appendix, article, artpagenums, attribution, authorinitials, bibliocoverage, bibliodiv, bibliography, biblioid, bibliolist, bibliomisc, bibliomixed, bibliomset, bibliorelation, bibliosource, blockquote, bridgehead, callout, calloutlist, caption, chapter, citation, citebiblioid, citetitle, city, colophon, confdates, confnum, confsponsor, conftitle, contractnum, contractsponsor, contrib, country, cover, dedication, dialogue, drama, edition, email, emphasis (db._emphasis), emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, example, fax, figure, firstname, firstterm (db._firstterm), firstterm (db.firstterm), footnote, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), givenname, glossary, glossdef, glossdiv, glosslist, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db._glossterm), glossterm (db.glossterm), holder, honorific, index, informalexample, informalfigure, issuenum, itemizedlist, jobtitle, label, legalnotice, line, lineage, linegroup, link, listitem, literal, literallayout, mathphrase, member, note, olink, optional, orderedlist, orgdiv, orgname, otheraddr, othername, pagenums, para, partintro, personname, phone, phrase (db._phrase), phrase (db.phrase), pob, poetry, postcode, preface, primary, procedure, productname, productnumber, publishername, qandadiv, qandaset, question, quote (db._quote), quote (db.quote), releaseinfo, remark, result, revdescription, revnumber, revremark, secondary, section, see, seealso, seriesvolnums, setindex, shortaffil, sidebar, simpara, simplesect, state, step, street, subscript, subtitle, superscript, surname, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, term, termdef, tertiary, textobject, title, titleabbrev, toc, trademark, uri, variablelist, volumenum, wordasword, year.

The following elements occur in remark: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, author, biblioref, citation, citebiblioid, citetitle, coref, date, editor, email, emphasis (db._emphasis), emphasis (db.emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), firstterm (db.firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), glossterm (db.glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlineequation, inlinemediaobject, jobtitle, link, literal, olink, optional, org, orgname, person, personname, phrase (db._phrase), phrase (db.phrase), productname, productnumber, quote (db._quote), quote (db.quote), remark, subscript, superscript, termdef, trademark, uri, wordasword, xref.