Weaving your Webpage

Paragraphs:

     Unlike documents in most word processors, carriage returns in HTML files aren't significant. So you don't have to worry about how long your lines of text are (long ones are harder to edit though). Word wrapping can occur at any point in your source file, and multiple spaces are collapsed into a single space by your browser.

A paragraph in HTML looks like this:

<P>The moon is a fascinating world. A recent discovery has found water ice on the moon.</P>

      Its okay to put blank lines in and spaces while writing your document. The browser will ignore them, but it makes editing them much easier than one long line.

     The Web browser starts a new paragraph only when it encounters another <P> tag. Technically, you don't need the </P> tag, but many people put it in anyway.

     Using the <P> and </P> as a paragraph container means that you can center a paragraph by including the ALIGN=alignment attribute in your source file.

<P ALIGN=CENTER> This will center the paragraph. </P>

Headings:

HTML has six levels of headings, numbered 1 through 6, with 1 being the most prominent. Headings are displayed in larger and/or bolder fonts than normal body text. The first heading in each document should be tagged <H1>.

This is an H1 heading

This is an H2 heading

This is an H3 heading

This is an H4 heading

This is an H5 heading

This is an H6 heading

Font Tags:

     These tags control the appearance the text they contain. They should be used within document structures such as paragraphs or tables.

Type Styles

<B> will display text in BOLD

<I> will display text in Italics

<STRIKE> will display text with a line drawn through it through

<SUB> will display text as a subscript.

<SUP> will display text as a superscript.

<TT> will display text in a fixed typewriter-like font

<U> will display underlined text underlined

Font Size:

<BIG> will display text in a larger font.

<FONT> lets you specify how much larger or smaller the contained text should be than the surrounding text. It requires a SIZE attribute: <FONT SIZE=+3>Three times larger<FONT> Thee times larger <SMALL> will display text in a smaller font.