How to Style Text With HTML

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HTML, or Hypertext Mark-up Language, has been around for years and is the basis for most web programming. Although other languages are being added to supplement, and in some cases take over, HTML is the basic tool for web page design. One essential function of HTML is to style text. Text added to HTML is styled by the use of certain "tags" enclosed in brackets. Read on to learn how to style text with HTML.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Step 1

Go to a portion of your website code where you want to add text.
Step 2

Before you add text, choose a font and use the font tag, for example:
Step 3

Add a font size, for example:
Step 4

Add the color you want your text to be, for example: . Keep in mind the color of your background: black text on black or white on white will not show up at all to the reader.
Step 5

Add text styles: for bold, for italic and so on.
Step 6

Go back to page preview to check that the text loaded properly. If it is not right, get back into the code and change it.
Step 7

When finished with the text that you want styled, close your style commands with an HTML tag containing a backslash, for example to end bold text.

Tips & Warnings

Due to formatting restrictions, the HTML tags shown here have spaces between the brackets and the characters next to them. In your code, there shouldn't be any spaces there.

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