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Formatting text

For the rest of the tutorial we will not be going over the page structure each lesson. From here on in all the code that we will be reviewing can be tested by simply copying and pasting within your body tags.

There are several ways you can alter the text of your page. Using the same page you have created in the previous lesson, let's make the text "Hello World" bold.

Go back to your source page. This is the notepad text file where all of your code is. If you have already closed this file there is another way to get to it.

Simply, open your mypage.html file. Your web page will open up to your default web browser. Then go to View on the main menu and then click Source. This will open up your notepad file.

Now, insert an opening bold tag,  before the text "Hello World" and a closing bold tag,  after it.

Save your page in notepad by selecting File on the main menu and the click Save.

Go back to Internet Explorer and refresh the page. There are several ways you can refresh the page. Here are some examples of how to.

Press F5 on your keyborad
Press the refresh button which looks like this.
Go to View on your main menu and cick Refresh.

Now your page should look like this.

Below are some other useful tags to alter your text.

Code Result

This text is bold. This text is bold.

This text is italic. This text is italic.

This text is underlined. This text is underlined

<big>This text is big.</big> This text is big

This text is small. This text is small

This text containssubscript. This text contains _subscript.

This text containssuperscript. This text contains ^superscript.

This text is emphasized. This text is emphasized.

This text is strong. This text is strong.

You can also use multiple tags for the same text. For example, if you'd like to bold and underline the same text the code to use would be:

Hello World Hello World

But don't forget! Always nest your tags. Meaning the tag that you opened last must be closed first.

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