HTML Explained

Text Formatting

• <B>bold</B>
• <I>italics</I>
• <EM>emphasis - usually italics</EM>
• <STRONG>strong emphasis - usually bold</STRONG>
• <U>underline</U>
• <STRIKE>strikethrough</STRIKE>
• <BIG>big print - 1 size bigger</BIG>
• <SMALL>small print - 1 size smaller</SMALL>
• <SUB>_subscript</SUB>
• <SUP>^superscript</SUP>
• <BLINK>blink (Netscape only)</BLINK>
• <CITE>citation</CITE>
• <CODE>code</CODE>
• <KEY>key word</KEY>
• <SAMP>sample</SAMP>
• <TT>teletype</TT>
• <ADDRESS>
  Address
  </ADDRESS>
• <PRE>

  pre-formatted text

  </PRE>

HTML does not recognise more than one consecutive white space, so any combination of spaces, tabs, and carriage returns will just look like a single space when viewed by a web browser.

There are a couple of ways round this. One is to use the pre-formatted text tags <PRE> and </PRE> around the text. This gives you all the spacing you desire, but displays it in a fixed-width font, like a type-writer.

The alternatives:

• For a number of spaces, use the special code one after the other without angle brackets     &nbsp;
• For carriage returns, use the <BR> tag (line break).
• For paragraph markers, use <P> and </P>.

Some additional special characters:

• Copyright © &copy;
• Trade mark ™ &trade;