... HTML & Webpages ...

... Recommend this series to a friend.

We covered changing fonts, giving them color, making headings of different sizes, and even varying the size and position of your text. There are fine nuances involved in all of the above which I'll leave for you to learn from all your inspecting of other pages (using "view source" with all your best snooping resources, a "Columbo" you'll never be).

Other basic attributes of text would be adding bold, italics, underlines, strikes, and blinks. Suggestion: as tempting as they might be for the beginner, use all with conservative reserve (in other words, go easy). And especially with something like "blinkies" … nothing can be more annoying than words blinking all over the page; like Times Square at it's gaudiest.

But you should know how it's done if you need it at any special time, so here goes. Keeping in mind that all these need ending tags (you know, inserting that / to say, "enough is enough, that's the end"); try the following:

Bold is done with the <B> </B> tags.
Italics is done with the <I> </I> tags.
Underline is done with the <U> </U> tags.
Strikes are done with the <STRIKE> </STRIKE> tags.
Blinking (cut it out, Buddy) is done with the <BLINK> </BLINK> tags.

All you have to do is put the word or words between the opening and closing tag and the results are what you see. Just imagine seeing an entire page in deep red blinking at you; I've never tried it, and never will. And then be careful with the underlining; with the right color on your page, the viewer might think it is a link.

Other variatins for text might be making your caps (upper case) SMALLER. That can effectively be done with numbers like 1, 2, 3... too. So did you ask how that's done? I was just about to tell you. At least our minds are in sink sync.

It's done by using the <SMALL> </SMALL> tags. Sometimes you don't want (maybe for aesthetic reasons) caps and numbers to be huge, but you still want to have the caps (and numbers). The <SMALL> </SMALL> tags is the way to go (is it is or are?).

We touched upon it but now let's add in some details. Giving text a particular font size is done with the <FONT SIZE="?"> </FONT> tags. We did it earlier but now I want to say that those numbers that are placed where the ? (question mark) is, can vary all the way from -6 to +6, giving you twelve different sizes for you text. Here all I'll remind you is to remember the close the attribute with the / (end tag), and put the number in quotes. And what does it look like?

I suggest you try by yourself, using negative numbers, positive numbers with the plus mark, and positive numbers without the plus mark. Personally I've used very little of it, but the variations seem endless, and it all gives you more control over your pages.