Chapter 7. Formatting Text

In this lesson, you will learn how to style text using font, size, alignment, and color properties instead of the <font> element.

Setting Up the HTML Code

The HTML code for this lesson contains three paragraphs of text as shown in Listing 7.1. The contents of these paragraphs are wrapped inside <font> elements. The first paragraph has been set to a larger font size. It also has been colored and styled in bold and italic. The results are shown in Figure 7.1.

Example 7.1. HTML Code Containing Markup for Lesson 7

<p align="center"> <font size="4" color="#990000" face="times, times new roman"> <b><i>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit...</i></b></font> </p> <p> <font size="2" face="arial, helvetica"> Ut ...

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