Boot Camp

Text Coding
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Text Coding
Now, on the nitty-gritty of handling the text formatting options you have with HTML/
XHTML. While we have looked at the basic tags, let’s get into more detail and see how
coding text content works.
Body Section Heading Elements
The six heading elements, H1 through H6, represent section headings. Although the order
and occurrence of headings is not constrained by the HTML DTD, documents should not
skip levels (for example, from H1 to H3), as converting such documents to other representations
is often problematic.
The headings default to a bold version of whatever the default font of a visitor’s computer
is, usually Times or related serif.
H1: Bold, very-large font (approximately 24pt), centered, block-level. One or two blank
lines above and below. Good for website identifier title in the banner segment.
I am Heading 1.
H2: Bold, large font (approximately 18pt), flush-left, block-level. One or two blank lines
above and below. Good large subhead for web page identifier title in the body segment.
I am Heading 2.
H3: Italic, large font (approximately 14pt, slightly indented from the left margin, blocklevel.
One or two blank lines above and below. Good smaller subhead for web page subsection
headings in the banner segment.
I am Heading 3.
H4: Bold, normal font (approximately 12pt), indented more than , block-level. One
blank line above and below. Good smaller subhead for web page subsection headings in
the banner segment.
I am Heading 4.
H5: Italic, normal font (approximately 10pt), indented as , block-level. One blank
line above. Good for small font uses, like image captions, footer address info, etc.
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