HTML and XHTML Step by Step

Applying Bold and Italics

You learned how to apply bold and italic formatting by using the <b> and <i> tags in Part I of this book. You can continue to use those tags to format individual words and phrases, but you can’t use them in internal or external style sheets.

To include boldface in a style, use the font-weight argument. For example, you might create a class called boldface in your style sheet like this:

.boldface {font-weight: bold}

You can apply the boldface class to all text elements of a specified type, for example, all paragraphs, in style sheets.

p {font-weight: bold}

You can also apply it by using a style= argument in an individual paragraph.

<p style="font-weight: bold">This text is bold.</b>

One of the advantages of using a style for ...