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Using HTML coding to format your personal web page

When you add information to your personal profile web page, you will need to use HTML coding to tell your web browser how you want the information displayed. This isn't as hard to do as it sounds! In fact, there are probably experts in your class who can help. These pages aren't meant to be fancy; after all they only contain basic information.

Look at the samples above.

You will see that all the html codes are in these brackets < >.

<h3> is a heading
<p> is a new paragraph
<br> starts a new line (line break)
Can you guess the symbols for bold and italics?

Here are some basic examples:

<h1> This is a big heading. </h1>

<h2> This is a smaller heading. </h2>

<h3> This is a smaller heading yet. </h3>

This sentence contans text <b> that is bolded. </b>
This sentence contans text <i> that is in italics. </i>

Usually one set of brackets goes before the text, telling the browser to start showing the text in a certain way, e.g. <h3>. Another set of brackets containing a / goes at the end of the text, telling the browser to stop showing the text in that way, e.g. </h3>.

This is how headings, bold and italics work. Paragraphs <p> and new lines <br> don't need the second set of brackets to tell the browser to stop.

Using HTML coding to format your personal web page

<h1> This is a big heading. </h1>

<h2> This is a smaller heading. </h2>

<h3> This is a smaller heading yet. </h3>

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