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Headings as Text
Now that you’ve begun to build Web pages, you’ve probably noticed that you are lacking a bit in the knowledge of how to change the way the words are looking on your page. Well, it’s not hard to learn, and on these few pages I hope to fill you in on some of the basics and perhaps a couple of tricks too!
There are a couple of easy HTML tags to learn and you will be on your way shortly to building very interesting pages. Perhaps the easiest to learn is the two-sided Heading tags. These go from the largest, size one (1) to the smallest six (6). We have a really neat short cut and you used it in the first chapter. All you have to type is < H1 > and use the closing < /H1 > to stop the large size from taking over the whole page! You may expect these tags to work in any browser in the exact same way. Let’s take a look at what it would look like in a browser. I’ll demonstrate all six (6) in one screen-shot below.
Notice a couple of things: First I have not typed any Paragraph < P > or Break < br /> tags to have the text appear on different lines. That’s because Heading tags have a built-in para-graph tag. Also take note of the extremely large spacing between each line. Heading tags have built-in extra spacing above and below. It’s about 12 points of space above and another 3 points below. This totals up to a whopping 15 points of space between each line of text. And, it’s the same amount whether you are using a size one (1) heading or a size six (6) heading. Truly, headings should be used for just those times you need headings. So it looks like you’ll have to learn some other type of tag next.
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