Tags+for+Basic+Formatting+and+Giving+Your+Page+a+Title


 * Common Formatting Tags **

Great! Now that you've got your first HTML file under your belt lets learn some basic formatting. The basic formatting functions are **bold,** //italicize,// and __underline__. Line break is a function that allows content to be displayed on the following line allowing for a line of space to spread out content. The following are the start tags for these functions:

Bold -  Italicize -  Underline - Line Break -

Let's go back to our myfirstpage.txt and let's try some of these new tags. After the list let's add the following code:

code There is just so much more I need to learn! Where should I begin? I got it! I'll start by learning the common formatting tags ;)

code You can even do two or three of these functions at the same time. Add the following code after the paragraph text we just wrote.

code Soon I will be able to call myself a Web Designer  code

**Giving Your Page a Title**

Now let's give this page the title it deserves. This will be displayed on the title bar or tab of your web browser. You will need the following tags to help you do this:

Head - Title -

Directly below our start tag add the following code:

code My First Page code


 * Finishing It Up **

Before we finalize this page, let us add two more bits of code that will help to ensure the many different web browsers understand our code. We need to go back to our start tag and add some more code so that it looks like this now:

code  code

Finally, we can add the following directly under the start tag.

code  code Now we can save the .txt file and convert it to a .html file. Save the .txt file as commonformattingtags.txt and then save it again as commonformattingtags.html. Don't forget to change the file type field to 'All Types.'


 * Congrats!** __You__ have completed your //second// lesson on //__**HTML coding**__//!

-Mr. Mendonez