You may be familiar with some of the formatting options that are available in word processing applications such as Microsoft Office, and desktop publishing software such as QuarkXpress. Well, many of these formatting features are available in HTML too! This lesson contains some of the more common formatting options.
Headings
There is a special tag for specifying headings in HTML. There are 6 levels of headings in HTML ranging fromh1
for the most important, to h6
for the least important.Typing this code:
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<h2>Heading 2</h2>
<h3>Heading 3</h3>
<h4>Heading 4</h4>
<h5>Heading 5</h5>
<h6>Heading 6</h6>
Heading 1
Heading 2
Heading 3
Heading 4
Heading 5
Heading 6
Bold
You specify bold text with the<b>
tag.Typing this code:
<b>This text is bold.</b>
This text is bold.
Italics
You specify italic text with the<i>
tag.Typing this code:
<i>This text is italicised.</i>
This text is italicised.
Line Breaks
Typing this code:<p>Here is a...<br />line break.</p>
Here is a
line break.
line break.
Horizontal Rule
Typing this code:Here's a horizontal rule... <hr /> ...that was a horizontal rule :)
Here's a horizontal rule...
...that was a horizontal rule :)
...that was a horizontal rule :)
Unordered (un-numbered) List
Typing this code:
<ul>
<li>List item 1</li>
<li>List item 2</li>
<li>List item 3</li>
</ul>
- List item 1
- List item 2
- List item 3
Ordered (numbered) List
Note, that the only difference between an ordered list and an unordered list is the first letter of the list definition ("o" for ordered, "u" for unordered).Typing this code:
<ol>
<li>List item 1</li>
<li>List item 2</li>
<li>List item 3</li>
</ol>
- List item 1
- List item 2
- List item 3
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