Working with text.

Text is most likely going to be a large part of your website so it makes sense to see what you can do with it. Typing text into web pages is pretty easy because you can type it right in between the <BODY> tags. The harder part is formating it the way you want it to look. Like a wordprocesser text can be displayed in different styles bold, italic, underline, or strikethroughHtml text is formated by using tags. Tags are the things that really control your web page. The most important tags for working with text are:

  • The "Font" tag.
  • The Paragraph "P" tag .
  • The apperance tags.
    • Bold "B".
    • Italic "I".
    • Underline "U".
    • Strikethrough "S".
  • The Heading "H1" to "H6" tags.
  • The new line "BR" tag.
  • The no break "NOBR" tag.
  • The "BIG" tag

These tags provide the basis for working with and formating text in web pages. You can combine the apperance tags together along with the heading tags, use your imagination and see what you come up with.

You can type text straight into your webpage without using paragraphs. The advantage of using paragraphs is that you can arrange your text into "blocks", like paragraphs in a book, which helps make pages with lots of text eaiser to read.

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