Transcript Chapter 2
The Web Wizard’s Guide
to HTML
Chapter Two
Basic Text Formatting
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
Heading Elements
Headings come in six sizes
<h1> </h1> is the largest heading
<h6> </h6> is the smallest heading
Headings break up text with titles and
subtitles
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:
<h1 align=“center”>
Breaking Up Text
The paragraph element <p> begins a block
of text after an empty line
The break element <br> begins a block of
text on a new line
The horizontal rule element <hr> inserts a
horizontal line to emphasize a break in the
text
Standard Type Face Options
<font face=“Arial”> </font>
It is best to specify type faces in groups since
different computers use different type fonts:
face=“Arial, Geneva, Helvetica”
face=“Times New Roman, Times”
face=“Courier New, Courier”
Other useful font attributes include color and
size
Three Types of Lists
Ordered list
<ol>
<li> </li> Unordered list
<ul>
</ol>
<li> </li> Definition list
<dl>
</ul>
<dt> </dt>
<dd> </dd>
</dl>
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:
<br>
<pre></pre>
<blockquote></blockquote>