Hour 5. Basic Text Alignment and FormattingIn the early days of the Web, text was displayed in only one font and in one size. If you've been around computers long enough to remember what it was like before mice and graphical operating systems entered the picture, you know what I'm talking about because text formatting in those days was limited to making sure that you pressed Enter to start a new paragraph! HTML makes it possible to control the appearance of text and how it is aligned and displayed on a web page. This hour starts off with the basics of text alignment and formatting, and eventually guides you through some advanced text tips and tricks. You'll learn to incorporate boldface, italics, superscripts, subscripts, underlining, and strikethrough text into your pages, as well as how to choose typefaces and font sizes. Another important topic covered in this hour is lists, which provide a means of listing multiple items in HTML. Because lists are so common in web pages, HTML provides tags that automatically indent text and add numbers or bullets in front of each listed item. You'll find out in this hour how to format numbered and bulleted lists, not to mention definition lists, which can be used as a simple way to indent content on a page.
Try It Yourself You can make the most of this hour if you have some text that needs to be indented, centered, or otherwise manipulated visually in order to be more presentable:
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