HTML Formatting

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 from h1 for the most important, to h6 for the least important.
Typing this code:

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>


Results in this:
Heading 1


Heading 1


Heading 1


Heading 1


Heading 1


Heading 1







Bold


You specify bold text with the <b> tag.
Typing this code:

Code:

<b>This text is bold.</b>


Results in this:
This text is bold.

Italics


You specify italic text with the <i> tag.
Typing this code:

Code:

<i>This text is italicised.</i>


Results in this:
This text is italicised.

Line Breaks


Typing this code:

Code:

<p>Here is a...<br />line break.</p>


Results in this:
Here is a
line break.
Horizontal Rule


Typing this code:

Code:

Here's a horizontal rule...
<hr />
...that was a horizontal rule :)

Results in this:
Here's a horizontal rule...

...that was a horizontal rule

Unordered (un-numbered) List


Typing this code:

Code:

<ul>
  <li>List item 1</li>
  <li>List item 2</li>
  <li>List item 3</li>
</ul>


Results in this:

• 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:

Code:

<ol>
  <li>List item 1</li>
  <li>List item 2</li>
  <li>List item 3</li>
</ol>


Results in this:

1. List item 1
   
2. List item 2
   
3. List item 3