The Web Wizard

1
The Web Wizards Guide to HTML

• Chapter Two
• Basic Text Formatting

2
Chapter Objectives

• Show how to create heading and paragraphs for Web
  pages
• Explain how to control a variety of features
  associated with text
• Learn how to add three types of lists to a Web
  page
• Explore the layout and white-space controls for
  blocks of text

3
Heading Elements

• Headings come in six sizes
• lth1gt lt/h1gt is the largest heading
• lth6gt lt/h6gt is the smallest heading
• Headings break up text with titles and subtitles

4
Tag Attributes

• Most HTML tags support their own set of tag
  attributes
• Each attribute contains an attribute name and an
  attribute value
• E.g. you can center a heading with an alignment
  attribute
• lth1 aligncentergt

5
Breaking Up Text

• The paragraph element ltpgt begins a block of text
  after an empty line
• The break element ltbrgt begins a block of text on
  a new line
• The horizontal rule element lthrgt inserts a
  horizontal line to emphasize a break in the text

6
Standard Type Face Options

• ltfont faceArialgt lt/fontgt
• It is best to specify type faces in groups since
  different computers use different type fonts
• faceArial, Geneva, Helvetica
• faceTimes New Roman, Times
• faceCourier New, Courier
• Other useful font attributes include color and
  size

7
Three Types of Lists

• Ordered list
• ltolgt
• ltligt lt/ligt
• lt/olgt

• Unordered list
• ltulgt
• ltligt lt/ligt
• lt/ulgt

Definition list ltdlgt ltdtgt lt/dtgt ltddgt lt/ddgt
lt/dlgt
8
White Space Management

• Browsers are programmed to ignore extraneous
  blank spaces and empty lines
• Controlling white space on a Web page requires
  special HTML elements
• nbsp
• ltbrgt
• ltpregtlt/pregt
• ltblockquotegtlt/blockquotegt