MathML Radicals

In MathML, two elements are used to specify radicals. These two elements are:

• <msqrt> element
• <mroot> element

The <msqrt> element creates a square root, taking the base as its only argument, and the <mroot> element is used to create an indexed root. It takes base and index as argument.

For example:

To write the following equation on the web page:

Equivalent MathML code:

1. <math xmlns=’http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML’ display=’block’>  
2.   <msqrt>  
3.     <mn>4</mn>  
4.   </msqrt>  
5.   <mo>×</mo>  
6.   <mroot>  
7.     <mn>8</mn>  
8.     <mn>3</mn>  
9.   </mroot>  
10.   <mo>=</mo>  
11.   <mn>4</mn>  
12. </math>  

Supporting Browsers:

Element	Chrome	IE	Firefox (Gecko)	Opera	Safari
<msqrt>	Not Supported	Not Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Only Basic Support