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Lesson 1- the basics:
Each one of these is a HTML tag that is used to notify the browser that special formatting is needed. Most tags need to be used both before and after the text you want to mark, and two only need to be used before the text.
Here are brief descriptions of each tag, and samples of how they work:
Sample:
Sample:
<blockquote>This is a blockquote</blockquote>
This is a blockquote
Sample:
<em>Italicized text</em>
Italicized text
Sample:
<strong>Bold text</strong>
Bold text
Samples:
<ul>Colors
<li>red
<li>orange
<li>yellow
</ul>
- Colors
- red
- orange
- yellow
<ol>Colors
<li>red
<li>orange
<li>yellow
</ol>
- Colors
- red
- orange
- yellow
Let’s see how the above turns out.
Depending on if it’s OK or not, the next post will either attempt to correct errors, or go on to lesson 2.