HTML Lesson 2

This text is bold. —> This text is bold.

This text is italicized. —> This text is italicized.

This text is underlined. —> This text is underlined.

This text is red. —> This text is red.
HTML recognizes most common color names: red, blue, green, yellow, purple, orange, etc.

<big>This text is big.</big> —> This text is big.

<big>This text is big and bold.</big> —> This text is big and bold.

Remember: The HTML tag starts boldfacing text and will continue until you stop it by inserting the tag . The same goes for italics, underlining, font color, and font size.

Block quotations: The tag <blockquote> begins a blockquote, and the tag </blockquote> ends it.

I enter the following:

Suppose I am writing a post and want to quote the first few lines from the Gettysburg Address and set them off in an indented block. <blockquote> Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. </blockquote> Then I continue with my own words following the quotation.

This will be displayed as follows:

Suppose I am writing a post and want to quote the first few lines from the Gettysburg Address and set them off in an indented block.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

Then I continue with my own words following the quotation.

Bullets: A list of bullet points is an "unordered list" and is begun with the tag <ul>. For each bullet item in the list, you must also insert the tag <li> in front of each item. Note: You do not need to end each bullet item with a closing tag </li>. Just hit "enter" and begin the next bullet item using the <li> tag.

I enter the following text:

This is the text for my posting. After blabbering on for a while, I want to drop in a list of bullet points. So I signal the beginning by inserting the tag for an "unordered list."<ul>. <li> This is my first bullet item. To end it, I merely hit "enter" to break the line, and then begin my next bullet item. <li> This is my second bullet point. I end it with another "enter". <li>This is my third and final bullet point, so I end it by inserting the tag that stops the "unordered list."</ul>. Then I continue my posting with whatever text I want to follow the bullet items.

This will display on screen as follows:

This is the text for my posting. After blabbering on for a while, I want to drop in a list of bullet points. So I signal the beginning by inserting the tag for an "unordered list."

This is my first bullet item. To end it, I merely hit "enter" to break the line, and then begin my next bullet item.
This is my second bullet point. I end it with another "enter".
This is my third and final bullet point, so I end it by inserting the tag that stops the "unordered list."

Then I continue my posting with whatever text I want to follow the bullet items.

If you want numbers instead of bullets, replace the <ul> tag with <ol> (for "ordered list"), and the </ul> tag with </ol>. If you want a blank line separating the bulleted or numbered items, just hit "enter" a second time to create the blank line.