Basics Lesson 2

The Basics

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

</BODY>
</HTML>

How do you make the text do what you want it to?

Glad you asked!

You give it more tags!

The text above I enclosed in the <CENTER> and </CENTER> tags.

You can also make your text bold by enclosing it in the tags.

Put your text in italics by using the tags.

Want to underline your text? Use the tags.

Go ahead and try it! Open Notepad and bring up your Start Page. Enclose "Hello World" in the tags. Go ahead. It'll look like this;
<CENTER>Hello World</CENTER>.
What a mess! It looks like this:
Hello World

You don't have to use them all in one go. Use 'em one at a time, two at a time, however many you want. The idea is to make the text do what you want it to do.

You can move on to Lesson 2 here or read more about these tags.

The tags that have a beginning <> and an ending </> are called "container" tags. They hold things. You'll use these tags over and over. After a while, knowing if the tags are "containers" will become automatic.

This part is hard to explain. The order of the tags. If you'll notice how that was written above, we started with <CENTER> and ended with </CENTER>, the next tag was and the next to the last was and so on. I don't know if your page being loaded would be affected by these being in a different order or not. What I do know, is that when your text isn't doing what it should and you go and look at your HTML in your editor, it's easier to catch what you left out.