HTML 4 For Dummies
Chapter One
Text and Lists
In This Chapter
* Working with basic blocks of text
* Manipulating text blocks
* Creating bulleted, numbered, and definition lists
HTML documents consist of text, images, multimedia files, links, and
other pieces of content that you bring together into one page by using
markup elements and attributes. You use blocks of text to create such document
elements as headings, paragraphs, and lists. The first step in creating a
solid HTML document is laying a firm foundation that establishes the document's
structure.
Formatting Text
Here's a super-ultra-technical definition of a block of text: some chunk of content
that wraps from one line to another inside an HTML element.
Your HTML page is a giant collection of blocks of text:
Every bit of content on your Web page must be part of some block
element.
Every block element sits within the element on your page.
HTML recognizes several kinds of text blocks that you can use in your document,
including (but not limited to)
Paragraphs
Headings
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