BASIC HTML PART THREE

Part 3

      Congratulations your page looks a little better - HTML is neat huh !

      Now that we have learned to write a basic web page with Headlines, Line Breaks, Paragraphs and Horizontal Rules we can make it a lot prettier by putting special text formatting commands in.

      We can put words in italics or make them Bold or Underline Them the command for Italics is <I> the command for Bold is <B> and the command for Underline is <U> ( Don't forget to close each command after you use it ! ).

      We can nest commands like this   <B> <I> <U> WOW </U> </I> </B> All I have to do is make sure to close the commands in the proper order - It's like coming into a house and going back out - you open each door on the way in and close them on the way out starting with the door you last opened. Simple stuff really but its easy to get the order wrong. Check every time you use an command and write both the openning command and the closing command first then if you are nesting commands put the next commands on the outside of these. Does that make sense ? Its just like Mom says " Close each Door after yourself " This is important so we'll show it again. Always make sure you open and close each section as you go.

      <U> <B><I>Just Like This </I></B> </U>

Summary of commands for formatting text

  1. <B> Bold </B>
  2. <I> Italics </I>
  3. <U> Underline</U>
  4. <B> <I> <U> All the Above Nested </U> </I> </B>

      We started this section with a Horizontal Rule - just to make it neat. Do you remember how to do that ? if not here it is again <HR>

      Now we are closing our web page with the /Body and /HTML tags. Its good practise to put in the closing tags every time I open a command. That way I don't mess up and forget them later and have to recheck and edit a whole web page .

</BODY>

</HTML>

      Thats It !! you can now write a web page. You'v completed all three parts of the first lesson ! Practice a little using all the tags you have learned. The next lessons will be more fun. We'll show you how to use C o l o r s , different Font faces (types of Fonts) and sizes of Fonts, in your page and then show you how to put images and links to other pages in your site. As soon as your ready to go just click Tutorial 2 for your next set of instructions.
  See you there !

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