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Format Tags

You can center your words on a line:

<center>Woo-Hoo! I'm Learning HTML!</center>

WARNING! You really shouldn't use the <center></center> tags once you understand HTML and CSS (which we'll explain a little later). However, since you're just starting to learn HTML, go ahead and use them.

You can make words bold or strong:

Woo-Hoo! I'm learning HTML!

Notice that I placed the start bold tag, , just before the word that I wanted to make bold, as well as placing the end bold tag, , right after the word I wanted to make bold. This way I am giving specific instructions to the web browser, telling where to start making things bold and where to end. If I had forgotten to put the tag, it would have totally changed the display in the web browser. Check it out:

Woo-Hoo! I'm learning HTML!

You can make words italicized or emphasized:

Woo-Hoo! I'm learning HTML!

You can even use tags in combination. Want something bold and in italics? No problem:

<html>

<head>

<title> Learning HTML </title>

</head>

<body>

Woo-Hoo! I'm learning HTML!

</body>

</html>

When you use more than one pair of tags, as I did in the above example, you need to do something called nesting so that you won't confuse the web browser. Let me explain…

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This resource originally created by Deborah Dunk.
Revised and edited by Michael Galloway in 2005 & in 2006.

Updated on 11 Jun 2009

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