Occasionally you will need some text to be brought to the forefront of the viewer's eye. An important point, an instruction, something you feel is important for a visitor to see even if they are just scanning over your web page.
This is where the Bold <B>, </B> and Italics <I>, </I> Tags
can come in very handy. These two tags are also extremely easy to use.
Use these tags sparingly, for emphasis. The average visitor will quickly tire of looking at a page that is all bolded, or all italicized. I have used the Bolding Tag extensively here on this site to bring out the Tags and help separate the tag coding from the rest of my text. As a visitor scans through these pages they can quickly pick out what is Coding, and what is description or explanation.
Here is an example line of text:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
Now let's apply some Bolding to it:
<B>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog</B>
This will be displayed in your browser like this:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
Now here is the line of text again:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
This time let's Italicize it:
<I>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog</I>
This will appear in your browser like this:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
Now just for fun lets take that same line of text, and apply both Bolding and Italics to it:
<B><I>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog</I></B>
This will appear in your browser like this:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
If you are having trouble applying multiple tags to one line of text, please read the Nesting Tags tutorial on this site. It will explain the process in more detail.
