HTML Tips and Techniques
Formatting Commands

If you have gone through HTML Lesson 1, you learned about the very basics of HTML. You can now put raw text onto a HTML page. It looks a little plain, though. Now itīs time to learn how to make the text a bit more pretty.

BOLD Bold is done with the B tag. You simply put a <B> before the text you want bolded. Then put a </B> after it. So to bold the word BOLD you would type

<B>BOLD</B>

which creates

BOLD

UNDERLINE

In the same manner, underlines can be created by using the U tag. Simply put a <U> before anything you want underlined, and a </U> after it. This isnīt a *link* - this is just underlined text. Use this sparingly, because since links are normally underlined, a person who sees underlined text normally assumes it links somewhere. So to underline the word UNDERLINE you would do

<U>UNDERLINE</U>

which makes

UNDERLINE

ITALICS

Italics works the same way, with the letter I. Just use <I> to start the italics and </I> to end them. So to italicize the word ITALICS you would do

<I>ITALICS</I>

which makes

ITALICS

Thatīs the basics of formatting!

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