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Working with HTML

A web page is simply a text document that contains instructions for web browsers. If you look at a typical web page in a regular text editor, you see a bunch of code in angle brackets and a bunch of text; it’s not very exciting. However, when a web browser “sees” a web page, it uses these bits of code, called tags, to interpret how the document should look and what is to happen when certain things are clicked on.

It is beyond the scope of this guide to cover HTML in its entirety. Here are minimal basics if you want to format content in RB9 using HTML.

• General Rule

  HTML tags consist of a left angle bracket (<), followed by name of the tag and closed by a right angular bracket (>). Tags are usually paired. The ending tag looks just like the starting tag except a slash (/) precedes the text within the brackets.

• Character Formatting

  • <h1> Headline style 1 </h1>
  • <h2> Headline style 2 </h2>
  • <h3> Headline style 3 </h3>
  • <h4> Headline style 4 </h4>
  • <p> Basic paragraph style </p>
  • <em> Italic text </em>

• Forced Line Breaks

  The <br /> tag forces a line break with no extra space between lines. It is placed where you want the line break to occur and is unique in that it has no corresponding closing tag.

• Linking to Other Documents

  The chief power of HTML comes from its ability to link regions of text (and also images) to another document. The browser highlights these regions (usually with color and/or underlines) to indicate that they are hypertext links (often shortened to hyperlinks or simply links). HTML’s hypertext-related beginning tag is <a>, which stands for anchor. To include an anchor in your document:
  1. Start the anchor with <a.
  2. Specify the document that’s being pointed to by entering the parameter href="[filename]" followed by a closing right angle bracket >.
  3. Enter the text that will serve as the hypertext link in the current document.
  4. Enter the ending anchor tag: </a>.

Reference

• HTML

Step-by-step instructions

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