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HTML Text Formatting
Here in HTML Tutorial you will learn that how to make your web page colorful by
using HTML text formatting. Well, you remember from the last html tutorial
section how
you needed a start tag and an end tag right?
Start with the start tag, end with the end tag.
Simple. You already know that <b> means bold. Let's refresh.
HTML Bold and Italic Formatting
<b>brilliant</b>
<i>superb stuff</i>
becomes superb stuff.
Underlining is laughably easy too just use <u>
HTML Underline Formatting
<u>HTML Tutorial underline content</u>
We can even make our text look like it was bashed out on a typewriter use tt.
HTML Typewrite style Formatting
<tt>Enjoy typewriter style text at HTML Tutorial section of
HTML Text Formatting.</tt>
The examples above all use presentational html text formatting tags. You may want to use
logical tags instead, which make your content more accessible.
Your browser only displays one space between words. If you add in more
spaces in the source code, they will be ignored. If you want to forcefully
add in extra blank spaces, you can use the special character ,
which stands for 'non-breaking space'. With this you can create indents
for your text.
HTML Spaces Formatting
<p> This text will be indented in HTML
Tutorial because of HTML Text Formatting</p>
You can use <b> or <B>.
I prefer to make all of mine
lowercase because it looks much neater
when you're reading and editing your code,
and suits the version of HTML I code in, but
it doesn't change how they work. It's up to you.
you can. Simply surround the text you want with both sets of tags
<b><i>like this</i></b>
Something to note however, is the
order you put them in. If you start with b,
you end with b. In the example above, <i> was
the last tag opened, so it is the first one
closed. This is something you should remember,
because the importance of your tag syntax becomes
critical later on. This style of opening and closing
is called LIFO Last In, First Out.
Putting tags inside each other like this is called nesting.
Skipping HTML Lines Formatting
You've probably noticed by now that when displayed in
a browser your page seems to have lost all its paragraphs
and whatnot. Your browser ignores any returns and indents.
So what do you do? You use <br>, which stands for 'line Break'.
This is known as an 'empty element' a tag which doesn't need an
end tag just type that and the text will start on a new line.
Or how about skipping a line and creating paragraphs? To do that,
use <p>, which stands for 'Paragraph'. There are two ways to go
about using p. You can just put it at the end of a paragraph to
skip a line on to the next; or you can put a <p> at the start of
the paragraph and a </p> at the end. We prefer the latter, because
it looks neater, and allows you more flexibility. You should use
it too.
HTML Headings Formatting
In the beginning, heading tags were
invented as a graded method of information
layout and division. You used big headings for
the main points in a page and go down through the
numbers. There are 6 grading or levels of HTML headings:
<h1> to <h6>. Graphically, these create decreasingly
large text, with h1 being the biggest, and h6 being the
smallest of the group.
So lets see them!
Oh, that's my cue. Ok: here are the examples:
Heading 1
Heading 2
Heading 3
Heading 4
Heading 5
Heading 6
You just wrap the preferred heading tag around the text, like so:
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<h2>Heading 2</h2>
<h3>Heading 3</h3>
<h4>Heading 4</h4>
<h5>Heading 5</h5>
<h6>Heading 6</h6>
The text will then appear bold and big. One
thing to note is that headings are always apart
from the rest of your text, like a paragraph.
This is a property of block-level tags. You cannot
flow headings and normal text together. If you want
text to follow straight away, you should just change
the font size and not use a heading.
The title of your page should be made into a level-one
heading. The rest of your page should be divided into
sections with further heading tags, getting progressively
smaller for points and sub-points. Try not to skip levels
like going from a <h2> to a <h4>.
Headings take on the color and font
face of the surrounding text, so you can change
a headings color, say, by wrapping a font color
around the h tag. Read this tutorial on font and
color for more.
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