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Beginning HTML

Formatting Text

As beautiful as our first page was, I reckon there's still room for improvement. I've already mentioned the <b></b> tag pair and there are plenty more that are used in a similar way. Here's a list:

Name HTML Effect
Bold Some <b>Text</b> Here Some Text Here
Italic Some <i>Text</i> Here Some Text Here
Underline Some <u>Text</u> Here Some Text Here
Strikethrough Some <s>Text</s> Here Some Text Here
Subscript Some <sub>Text</sub> Here Some Text Here
Superscript Some <sup>Text</sup> Here Some Text Here
Keyboard Some <kbd>Text</kbd> Here Some Text Here
Typewriter Some <tt>Text</tt> Here Some Text Here

Try experimenting with a few of these and see how they work.

Hmm, but what if you want bold and italic. To do this, you need to combine the tags like this:

This text is <b><i>bold and italic</i></b>.

You can use as many tags together as you like to allow you to get the effect that you desire.

Comments

  1. 10 Sep 2008 at 13:52

    Hi

    Nice read, I m noob in web design therefor it is so much useful for me in my study.

     

    thanks 

  2. 15 Feb 2005 at 22:02

    Hi All,
        I have Registered in ur site, becs i want a Free HTML conerter software. if it is not available in ur Company then give the address where i down load it. i want to use it personally.


    Regards
        PKN

  3. 18 Jan 2003 at 19:21

    Hi all,


    Sorry I've been away for so long. But I may be back soon. Does anybody really want a sequel? If so what do you want in it. Anything in particular? Post here or mail me and I'll include it, if it's not too hideously complicated.


    I'm glad that some people have found this of some use.

  4. 27 Dec 2002 at 22:06

    Thanks for presenting "the beef", with none of the fat (or fluf) ...

  5. 30 Nov 2002 at 17:41

    Just what I needed! Thank you very much!

  6. 22 Jul 2002 at 11:40
    Anyone just starting out coding HTML should read this. Clearly and logically presented. 100%.

    DotZip
  7. 19 Jul 2002 at 15:53

    This is awesome, please do a sequel because I really want to learn HTML. I usually use Dreamweaver or something but I want to stop being lazy!


    Please do a sequal

  8. 01 Jan 1999 at 00:00

    This thread is for discussions of Beginning HTML.

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