Use paragraphs to space out the blocks of sentences in your HTML document.
It helps your readers to quickly scan through your web page when you have lots of white space between paragraph with prominent headings.
The opening tag for a paragraph is <p>, and the closing tag is </p>. The closing tag for a paragraph is not always needed, but
I recommend using it anyway.
Example of a paragraph...
Bob starts to chase the chicken around. Bob trips over a string and goes flying
into the pig's mud pit! eww! What a pity!
<p>Bob starts to chase the chicken around. Bob trips over
a string and goes flying into the pig's mud pit! eww! What a pity!</p>
Text Formatting Properties...
If you had an entire web page without formatted text, it would look rather dull
and boring. This is why we use text formatting tags. Some common text formatting
tags are: <b> and </b> for bold, <i> and </i> for italics, <u> and </u> for underlined, and <tt> and </tt> for typewriter.
Text Formatting Properties...Font Tags
The <font size=n> and </font> tags come in
handy. n is the number of font points by which to change the size of the current
font. n can be positive or negative: a positive number will increase the font
size, and a negative number will decrease it. n can also be an absolute number, indicating an absolute size for the font
(not a relative size).
Many tags support ALIGN attributes... if you want something to be aligned
from the left margin, from the center, or from the right margin. The ALIGN
attribute is placed in the opening tag before the >.
Left Align
<h1 align=left>Left Align</h1>
Center Align
<h1 align=center>Center Align</h1>
Right Align
<h1 align=right>Right Align</h1>The Line Break...
When your HTML document is viewed, normally the text will do a word-wrap at the
end of a line. If you want to have the text BREAK (go to another line) you will
use the <br> tag. This tag has no closing tag.
If you wish to have text line up properly (a.k.a. fixed width text) that will
include line breaks without the use of the <br> you may find the
<pre> and </pre> tags helpful.
Example of text WITHOUT preformatting...
The cat ran after the dog. ^ ^-verb ^noun ^-noun
The cat ran after the dog.
^ ^-verb ^noun
^-noun
HTML ignores the extra line breaks, so the text does not line up properly. Example of text WITH preformatting...
The cat ran after the dog.
^ ^-verb ^noun
^-noun
<pre>
The cat ran after the dog.
^ ^-verb ^noun
^-noun
</pre>
Your own HTML page...
Add the following to your HTML page ("Home.htm"), between the lines <body>
and </body>:
<h1>YOURNAME's Home Page</h1>
<hr>
This is the home page of <b>YOURNAME</b>.
<p>Type something about yourself here. Describe briefly who you are and
what you do for a living. Remember to use bold and italic text, for emphasis.</p>