HTML Basics
by Andy Rush

Let's start adding some stuff to our web page. How about a nice big description of our page, something like "My Home Page". We'll use the heading tag which looks like this <H1>. We'll add this line to our html document:

<H1>My Home Page</H1>

Note that the <H1> tag and the </H1> tag surround the text on either side. The <H1> tag turns on the H1 format, while the </H1> tag turns it off. If you don't have the tag that turns off the formatting, your whole document will have huge text because it's using heading size 1.

Let's see it . . . (View the source if you want, then click the Back button to return)

There are many sizes of heading tags you can use:

<H1> </H1> Largest size heading . . .

<H2> </H2> with

<H3> </H3> everything

<H4> </H4> in

<H5> </H5> between

<H6> </H6> to the smallest heading.

Now we'll simply add some text, a short welcome, to our page after our opening title.

What does the welcome look like . . . (and view the source while you're there)

Here are some other tags to try:

<B></B> for Bold text

<CENTER> </CENTER> for Centered text

<U></U> for Underlined text

<I></I> for Italic text

Again, each one of the tag pairs above surround the text to be formatted on either side.

Let's add these elements to our page now. I want to center my heading, bold the word "Welcome", italicize "home page", and underline "enjoy".

Check it out . . . (While you're checking it out, view the source)