Learning HTML - Chapter 3.4

In this section, we presented a number of HTML commands to control the appearance of your document. The commands allowed us to have a title on our document, to present information as lists, and to change the format of some blocks of text.

You should have tried some of these tags by switching to Notepad and entering the text as it has been shown in this guide. Then save your file and switch back to Netscape. Use the Open File command to select your file and view it. If you have problems doing this, review the detailed instructions in Chapter 2.

The following HTML tags were used in Chapter 3:

<HEAD></HEAD>: Indicates a section of the document which is not displayed in the browser window.
<TITLE></TITLE>: The document title, shown at the top of the browser window. This tag goes between the <HEAD></HEAD> tags.
<BODY></BODY>: The main part of the document, displayed in the browser window.
<OL> </OL>: Ordered list - used at the beginning and end of a ordered (or numbered) list.
<UL> </UL>: Unordered - used at the beginning and end of a unordered (or bullet) list.
<LI>: List item - placed at the beginning of each item in an ordered or unordered list.
<DL> </DL>: Definition list - used at the beginning and end of a definition list.
<DT>: Term - placed at the beginning of terms in a definition list.
<DD>: Definition - placed at the beginning of definitions in a definition list.
<BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE>: Block quote - used to set a section of text apart.
<PRE> </PRE>: Preformatted - presents text as it is typed, with spacing and line breaks intact.
<CENTER> </CENTER>: Center - centers text.

There are other tags for additional formatting options, but we won't cover them in this guide. In the next section, we'll begin to explore the HyperText feature of HTML by creating links to other documents.

Chapter 3 - More Basic HTML Tags

3.4 Review