November 2002
Beginner
432 pages
11h 44m
English
Content preview from Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition
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Simple HTML Text Formatting
When you want text to appear on the browser's screen, you enter the text inside the HTML code. Your Web page body could simply include lines of text like this:
<body> This text will appear on whatever Web browser screen opens this HTML code. </body>
Web browsers do not automatically format text. These three lines of text all appear on one line inside the browser, like this:
This text will appear on whatever Web browser screen opens this HTML code.
If you want to add line breaks, you must include the <br> tag (no ending <br> tag exists). <br> tells the Web browser to break the line at that point and move to the next line. The following <body> section displays three lines of text:
<body> This text will appear<br> ...