September 1999
Beginner
512 pages
11h 4m
English
In this hour you learn to control the appearance of the text on your pages. You'll learn to incorporate boldface, italics, superscripts, subscripts, underlining, and strikethrough text into your pages, as well as how to choose typefaces and font sizes.
This chapter also shows you how to create special symbols, such as the copyright mark, and European language characters such as the é in Café.
There are two completely different approaches to controlling text formatting and alignment in HTML 4. The tags you study in this chapter (and the align attribute from Hour 5, "Text Alignment and Lists" ) are the "old way," which is actually officially discouraged. The "new way" is introduced in Hour 16, "Using ...