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You can also use combinations to create bold italic, bold underlined, italic underlined or even bold italic underlined as so - <b><i><u>A combination of text styles!</u></i></b>
would create the line - A combination of text styles! Beyond these simple text formatting tags, there are the HEADER tags. They are also open tags, and look like this - <h1>Largest Header</h1>
<h2>Large Header</h2> <h3>Medium-Large Header</h3> <h4>Medium-Small Header</h4> <h5>Small Header</h5> <h6>Smallest Header</h6> Which creates this -
By default, HEADERs are bold and have large top and bottom margins. Not very nice, but if you know how to use style sheets, which will be covered in week 12, you can set the HEADERs to any size, colour and style you want! For now, you may use the HEADERs for basic text size control. An important closed tag is the line BReak or <br> tag. This forces the text after it to start a new row. Another useful closed tag is the Horizontal Rule or <hr> tag. This tag creates the horizontal lines you may see on these pages. An open tag which creates a block of text or PARAGRAPH is the <p> tag. The <p> tag does the job of two <br> tags, but requires a </p> at the end of the block of text. For example, this block of text and the one above are both within a set of their own <p> and </p> tags. To centre some text, use the <center> open tag. Like the bgcolor attribute of the <body> tag, the spelling of "center" is American. If you have a "<centre>" tag, nothing will happen. By default, text alignment is to the left. The above paragraph showed you how to align text centrally. It is also possible to align text to the right - that is what I have done here. However, you probably won't need to do this to text very often, it can be useful for images, which we will cover next week. <p align="right">Some text aligned to the right!</p>
Which does this - Some text aligned to the right! The most complex and versatile of the text formatting tags is the FONT open tag. <font> does nothing on its own, so it needs attributes. The most often used of these will be "color", "face" and "size". The examples below each use one of these attributes, though they may be combined.
So, if you feel adventurous, you could create this -
Note that where the "face" attribute is concerned, there may be some fonts which you have but your clients don't. Here is a short list of some common and varied fonts -
There are others, but if you stray from these, the client may not have them and the browser will display the default font, usually Times New Roman. |
It is very likely you will have used a word processor such as Microsoft Word or similar. If you have, the buttons on the left should be familiar. Button "B" makes text bold, button "I" makes text italic and button "U" makes text underlined.