Title: Text Styles
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Introduction

Text can be a lot more than just words. You can make text into many different shapes and forms, which may appear more attractive on your web site and improve the overall look of your site. In this section, you will learn how to use all the different styles of text.
Bold
This tag makes the text bold. The bold tag looks like <B>. The starting tag is <B> and the closing tag is </B>. The text between these two tags is bold. Below is an example using the bold tag.

index.html - Notepad
....<BODY>

<B>Hello World!</B>

</BODY>....

My Homepage - Microsoft Internet Explorer
Hello World!


Italic
This tag makes the text italic. The italic tag looks like <I>. The starting tag is <I> and the closing tag is </I>. The text between these two tags is italicized. Below is an example using the italic tag.

index.html - Notepad
....<BODY>

<I>Hello World!</I>

</BODY>....

My Homepage - Microsoft Internet Explorer
Hello World!


Underline
This tag makes the text underlined. The underline tag looks like <U>. The starting tag is <U> and the closing tag is </U>. The text between these two tags is underlined. Below is an example using the underline tag.

index.html - Notepad
....<BODY>

<U>Hello World!</U>

</BODY>....

My Homepage - Microsoft Internet Explorer
Hello World!


Strike Through
This tag makes the text strikethrough (with a line through it). The strike tag looks like <S>. The starting tag is <S> and the closing tag is </S>. The text between these two tags has a strike through it. Below is an example using the strike through tag.

index.html - Notepad
....<BODY>

<S>Hello World!</S>

</BODY>....

My Homepage - Microsoft Internet Explorer
Hello World!


Typewriter
This tag makes the text appear smaller and with a different appearance. The typewriter tag looks like <TT>. The starting tag is <TT> and the closing tag is </TT>. The text between the two is affected. Here is an example using the typewriter tag.

index.html - Notepad
....<BODY>

<TT>Hello World!</TT>

</BODY>....

My Homepage - Microsoft Internet Explorer
Hello World!