programming-for-dummies

The Structure of an HTML Document 467
Emphasizing text
To make text stand out, you can emphasize it as bold, italics, or underline by
using the following tags:
✦ and to display text in bold
✦ and to display text in italic
✦ and to display text as underline
Just place these tags around the text you want to emphasize, such as
Book V
Chapter 1
HyperText Markup
Language
This text appears in the title bar.
This text appears bold.
This text appears italicized.
This text appears underlined.
Adding color
Color can further emphasize the appearance of text. To color text, surround
it with the and tags where #xxyyzz
represents a color code, as shown in Table 1-1.
Colors are defined in shades of red, blue, and green, represented as hexadecimal
values. The xx portion defines the amount of red, the yy defines the
amount of blue, and the zz defines the amount of green. The absence of a
color is 00 whereas the maximum amount of a color is FF. By varying the
shades of red, blue, and green as hexadecimal values, you can define your
own colors.
Table 1-1
HTML Color Codes
Color
Color Code
Red
#FF0000
Turquoise
#00FFFF
Light blue
#0000FF
Dark blue #0000A0
Light purple
#FF0080
Dark purple #800080
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