Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition

Hour 5. Text Alignment and Lists

When you present information on paper (or with a good old-fashioned overhead projector), you probably often include lists of numbered steps or bullet points. You've also undoubtedly written many indented lists to organize information such as terms and their definitions or the outline of a business plan. Because lists are so common, HTML provides tags that automatically indent text and add numbers or bullets in front of each listed item.

In this hour you find out how to center text or align it to the right side of the page. You also see how to format numbered and bulleted lists, and how the HTML tags for creating definition lists can also be used for almost any other type of indentation you want on your Web pages. ...