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Other Formatting Tags

A header is formed by surrounding the text of the header with <H1> and </H1> for the largest header, and other numbers up to 6 for successively smaller headers. Browsers render the headers flush left, with white space above and below them. The header above is <H2>.

A list of items can be formatted in several ways, with bullets or with numbers. Lists can be nested. An unordered list (typically rendered with bullets) is surrounded by tags <UL> and </UL> and, within the list, each item is preceeded by <LI> (there is no </LI>). An ordered list is surrounded by <OL> and </OL> and again each item in the list is preceeded by <LI>.

A designer can ask that characters be rendered in different styles, but different browsers may treat the same style differently. The characters are enclosed in pairs of tags. The most common are <B>for bold type</B> or <I>for italics</I> or <KBD>for fixed-width type</KBD>.

Because angle brackets are used in tags you need a way to denote them if you want them printed. To get < you use &lt; and to get > you use &gt; where the semicolon is required. Since the ampersand is used in this way, you need a way to denote it: &amp;.

Example: in source form or as rendered by the browser.
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