A Complete Guide to Web Design

104 Chapter 7 – Formatting Text

Summary of Text Tags

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<h1> through <h6> NN: 2, 3, 4 - MSIE: 2, 3, 4, 5 - HTML 4 - WebTV - Opera3

<hn>...</hn>

Specifies that the enclosed text is a heading. There are six different levels of head-

ings, from<h1>to<h6>, with each subsequent level displaying at a smaller size.

<h5> and<h6> usually display smaller than the surrounding body text.

Attributes

align=center|left|right

Used to align the header left, right, or centered on the page.Microsoft Internet

Explorer 3.0 and earlier do not support right alignment.

<p> NN: 2, 3, 4 - MSIE: 2, 3, 4, 5 - HTML 4 - WebTV - Opera3

<p>...</p>

Denotes the beginning and end of a paragraph when used as container. Many

browsers will also allow the<p>tag to be used without a closing tag to start a

new paragraph. The container method is preferred, particularly if you are using

Cascading Style Sheets with the document.

Attributes

align=center|left|right

Aligns the text within the tags to the left, right, or center of the page.

Text Appearance (Inline Styles)

The following tags affect the appearance of text. With the exception of<base-

font>, all of the tags listed in this section define inline styles, meaning they can

be applied to a string of characters within a block element without introducing

line breaks. (<basefont>is used to specify the appearance of type for a whole

document or for a range of text.)

<abbr> NN: 2, 3, 4- MSIE: 2, 3, 4, 5- HTML 4 -WebTV- Opera3

<abbr>...</abbr>

Identifies the enclosed text as an abbreviation. It has no inherent effect on text

display, but can be used as an element selector in a style sheet.

Attributes

title=string

Provides the full expression for the abbreviation. This may be useful for non-

visual browsers and search engines.

Example

<ABBR TITLE="Massachusetts">Mass.</ABBR>