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NWE Help: Web: Authoring: HTML: Styling Text
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You can use the following tags to control the appearance of your text. We have created a document with more examples of text behavior with these tags.
- <Hn> </Hn> -- Headline
- (The "n" in "Hn" represents a number from 1 to 6.) Prints the text in a bold font with space above and below. There are six headline tags. <H1> is the biggest, <H6> is the smallest.
- <STRONG> </STRONG> or <B> </B> -- Strong or bold emphasis
- Prints text in a bold font.
- <EM> </EM> or <I> </I> -- Emphasis or italic
- Prints text in an italic font.
- <U> </U> -- Underline
- Prints text with an underline.
- <CODE> </CODE> -- Code font
- Prints text in a monospaced font.
- <BIG> </BIG> -- Big
- Prints big text.
- <SMALL> </SMALL> -- Small
- Prints small text.
- <FONT COLOR="#FF00FF"> </FONT> -- Font color
- Used with six-character codes to set the color of a selection of text.
- -- Indent (non-breaking space)
- This is a special character that tells the html browser to make a space without going to the next line. Several of these together are an ideal way to indent the first line of a paragraph.
