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Bold, Italics, Underline, Lists/Bullets, and Spacing

Bold Tag - Headers, page sections, definitions are some of the reasons to bold parts of a page's text. The following tag is used:

NOTE: Tags that surround an item have a beginning tag, along with an /ending.

In Dreamweaver you highlight the text you want bolded, then press the button.


Italic Tag - Headers, page sections, definitions are some of the reasons to italicize parts of a page's text. The following tag is used:

NOTE: Tags that surround an item have a beginning tag, along with an /ending.

In Dreamweaver you highlight the text you want italicized, then press the button.


Spacing - In web design you can hit the space bar 1000 times (don't do it!) and your browser will end up seeing just one space. If you desire spacing to be increased by more than 1, you need to add in the following tag for each space you want to put between 2 objects:

In Dreamweaver press the button for each space you want to add.



Lists - there are two types of lists that we will be working with. The first is a list that would display the results to the user in a numbered order:

In Dreamweaver press the button, then the for each list item.



The second is a bullet list:

In Dreamweaver press the button, then the for each list item.

 

Designing and Developing Your Web Page Using HTML - 2007