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February 28, 2006--HTML 3
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I had to show you our Winter!!!
Okay, on to more HTML: You have to try these and see how well they work.
To start a paragraph use:
<p>
There is no need for </p> it will give paragraphs with 2 lines between each.

<b>bold</b> <i>italics</i> <u>underscore</u>
The preceding three terms are used for bold, italics and underscore as I have written there.
These can be used together or separately; they can be used for one word, a few words, a whole
sentence, a whole paragraph, or a whole page.
The effect will start where you put <b>, for example, and end where you have the closing
</b>

Here is a fun one:

<tt>teletype writing</tt>
This previous term will give you text that looks very different from the rest of your text;
this teletype will really make your quote or whatever you want to stand out.

The next one is called preformatted text:
<pre>will be exactly as written</pre> 
It will show your text exactly as    you    have    written  


it in your HTML. 


Every space, every  


indentation will come through.


<blockquote>indents text on both sides</blockquote>
This one will indent text to the left and to the right, so your text will stand out
here also.


<br>
This one is called line break. It is used alone, no closing; it is placed at the end of a sentence
when you also want to start the next sentence on the next line.

Now, we will talk about lists; these are fun too, and so very exact.
<ol> creates an ordered list; you place it at the beginning, and go on to
<li> which precedes each list item, so you will have as many of these as you have items in
your list.
and, finally, </ol> closes the list.
So, it's not too complicated, huh? and if you can do this one, you can do all kinds of lists.

    For your ordered list,
  1. if you want numbers in front of your items, use <li type=1>;
  2. if you want capital letters, use <li type=A>;
  3. if you want lower case letters, use <li type=a>;
  4. if you want lower case roman numerals, use <li type=i>;
  5. if you want upper case roman numerals, use <li type=I>;


    Now, on to the unordered list:
  • <ul> starts the unordered list;
  • <li> is placed in front of each list item;
    and
  • </ul> closes the list;

You will get a dot in front of each item.
If you repeat these, such as <li>, you can create indentations in your list.

And finally, the definition list:
<dl> opens the list; <dt> precedes each term; and <dd> precedes the definition
and, of course, </dl> closes the list.
You can also use them in succession for indentation.

Of course all these are to be used with text, so they will go in your text area.

That is all I know for today; practice these, if you want to; they surely add character to your writing.
Are we having fun yet?
Ciao for now.

2006-02-28 18:35:32 GMT


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