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CHAPTER 2. HTML

2.6

Headings

There are six levels of headings; from the largest h1, to the smallest h6. Their

general form is

 CONTENT 

where CONTENT is typically text and/or images. The style attribute can be

used to specify the font size, background color, and text color.

2.7

Text Separation

HTML offers several elements that can be used to separate text on a page.

When these elements are combined with CSS, they allow the web page designer

to specify the style of different sections of the webpage.

The span element is used to group together some part of a line (or lines) of

text. It has the form:

 CONTENT 

where the CONTENT is typically text and/or images. The span element does

absolutely nothing by itself. It only becomes useful when combined with CSS,

as it allows one to apply a style attribute to a short inline segment of words

and/or images as in

See the blue  box 

around a single word.

The span element was introduced as a hook on which to attach CSS to small

segments of text.

The br elemeent is used to insert line breaks into the page. It has the form:

and observe that it does not have a close tag. Another way to break lines is to

insert a horizontal rule, which is a line which stretches all or part way across the

page and is used to visually separate parts of a page. These  rules  are inserted

using the

tag which also does not have a close tag.

Paragraphs are inserted into a page using the

CONTENT