Section 2
Introduction to HTML
TA: Norhan Swidan
Horizontal Rule, <hr>
- The <HR> element causes the browser to display a horizontal line
(rule).
- <HR> is an Empty Tag.
Practical Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>example page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<p>Paragraph 1, <br>line 2 </p>
<hr>
<p>Line 3 <br>... </p>
</body>
</html>
HTML Hr Properties
1- size: Height in pixels. Default is 2 pixels.
2- width: Width in pixels or percentage. (100%).
3- align: left | right | center.
4- color: sets a color for the rule.
Text Formatting
- <b> or <strong>: changes the text into bold.
<b> this is the text to be bold </b>
<strong> this is the text to be bold </strong>
- <i> or <em>: changes the text into italic.
<i> this is the text to be italic </i>
<em> this is the text to be italic </em>
Text Formatting
- <u>, <ins>: adds an underline to the text.
<u> this is the text to be underlined </u>
<ins> this is the text to be underlined </ins>
- <strike>, <del>: strikes a line through the text.
<strike> strike-through text </strike>
<del> Deleted text </del>
Text Formatting
- <pre>: this tag supports blank spaces and line breaks as the user
types in the code.
<pre> text
here </pre>
- <small>: enforces the browser to use smaller font.
<small> small font </small>
Text Formatting
- <big>: enforces the browser to use a bigger font.
<big> big font </big>
- <blockquote>: creates indents from both sides in the document.
<blockquote> Text </blockquote>
- <center>: enforces the browser to center the text.
<center> centered text </center>
Text Formatting
- <sub>: places text in subscript style position.
<sub> subscript position </sub>
- <sup>: places text in superscript style position.
<sup> Superscript position </sup>
- <mark>: adds a highlight behind the text.
<mark> highlighted text </mark>
Text Formatting
- <Span>: creates a division in the tag data (tag division).
<p>this is a <span>a span in</span> inside a
paragraph</p>
- <div>: creates a division in the document (page division) and can
contain other tags.
<div align="left"><p>….</p></div>