Web Design Garage

Chapter 44. Creating Custom Formatting Styles

For as beloved as HTML's formatting tags are in certain circles of Web design, these tags are pretty limited. They give you only the most basic formatting options: boldface, italic, underline, and strikethrough.

TIP The formatting tags in HTML include b (boldface), i (italic), u (underline), and s or strike (strikethrough).

You saw in Topic 43 how to mimic the effects of HTML's formatting tags with a simple style sheet. CSS opens the door to many other possibilities for formatting, as Table 44.1 shows.

Table 44.1. Common CSS Formatting Attributes

CSS ATTRIBUTE	POSSIBLE VALUES	EXAMPLE
font-weight	bold, bolder, lighter, normal	font-weight: bolder;
font-style	italic, oblique, normal	font-style: oblique;
font-variant ...