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Formatting Text on the Web Page
"Text" within an HTML document can refer to several aspects of the webpage:
- First, it can refer to text throughout an entire document.
- Second, it can refer to text within an
- Third, it can refer to individual phrases, words, or even characters.
Setting default text color is done with the <BODY> tag. See Body Attributes for a more detail explanation regarding setting the page defaults.
The default size of the font can be set with the <BASEFONT> tag. Once the <BASEFONT> is set for the page, font sizes are changed the by increasing (+) or decreasing (-) of the previous font size. See FONTSIZE for a more detail explanation.
Paragraphs codes are used to group text into paragraph blocks. Several tags can be used to format text into paragraphs. For a detailed explanation of how to set up paragraphs see Paragraphs.
Some HTML codes are reserved for setting up section headings. These codes set the size of the font, and force carriage returns around the text to create the headings. For a detailed discussion of headings, see Headings. Paragraphs also can be aligned, left, center and right. Text can be made to wrap around pictures, align into columns, and lists.
Individual phrases, words, or even individual characters, can be formatted to resemble any other page produced by a word processor. Formatting such as bold, italics, subscript, superscipt, size, face, underline, C OLO R, and
monospacedfonts can be accomplished by special tags or by the <FONT> tag and associated attributes,