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Index
1
- Getting Started
2
- Getting Started
3
- Getting Started
4
- Getting Started
5
- Getting Started
6
- Paragraph tags
7 - Bold tags
8
- More tags
9
- Extended Syntax
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Font tags
11 -
Font tags (cont)
12 -
List tags
13 -
Link tags
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Image tags
15 -
Center tags
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Table tags
17 -
Review
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If
you were to use only the <p> tag and nothing else in
all your future eBay listings, at the very least, your item
description text would be broken up into readable blocks as opposed
to one long, impossible-to-read block. So, technically, you could
stop right here, use only the <p> tag and be happy.
Of course, there are many other HTML tags that do other cool
things. For example, the tag named “b” - <b> tells
the browser to make all the text that follows the tag bold!
Let’s
go back to our test.html file in Notepad and type a <b>
tag just before the title line of our description (as shown in fig.
19)
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Fig. 19
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Again, make
sure to Save the Changes! (fig. 20)
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Let’s go back to
the IE window and click refresh…look what happens! (fig. 21)
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Fig. 21
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Everything after the <b>
tag is now bold. If we want only title line to be bold, we need a way to
tell the browser, “stop the bold here!” The tag we need is a bold
closing tag. Any tag that closes or stops some type of formatting looks like
this:
</name>
In this case, the tag
for stopping the bold formatting is </b>
Note the forward
slash before the tag name, “b”.
Let’s go back
to the Notepad file and type in a closing bold tag
at the end of the
title line after the word “Rug” (fig. 22)
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Fig. 22
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As always, don’t
forget to File, Save the changes! (fig. 23)
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Fig. 23
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Go back to the
Internet Explorer window and click the refresh
icon.
The title line is
now the only thing that is bold! (fig. 24)
<b>My
Wonderful Oriental Rug </b>
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Fig. 24
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Thus...
<b>My
Wonderful Oriental Rug </b>
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Any HTML tag that
formats text will always have an opening and closing version so you can
specify exactly where to start and where to stop a type of formatting.
Let’s look at several other simple tags!
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On to More Tags |
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