Font Size Commands
Maybe you'd like a little more control over your text size. Well,
here it is. The <FONT SIZE> commands. Heading commands are great for right at the
top of the page, but these font commands are going to end up as the workhorses of your
pages.
There are twelve (12) font size commands available to you:
+6 through +1 and -1 through -6.
As you've probably guessed, +6 is the largest (it's huge); -6
is the smallest (it's a little too small). Here are a few of them in action. There's no need to show all
of them. You'll get the idea of their relative sizes. Follow this pattern to place one on your
page.
<FONT SIZE="+3">This is
+3</FONT>
<FONT SIZE="+1">This is
+1</FONT>
<FONT SIZE="-1">This is
-1</FONT>
<FONT SIZE="-6">This is
-6</FONT>
Notice that this first command, <FONT SIZE="--"> is actually doing two things:
1. It's asking for a new font size...
2. then offering a number to denote the font size.
This is what I like to call a command inside of a command. The technical HTML term is an
"attribute". When you have that, you denote the attribute with an equal sign and enclose it within
quotation marks. Look above. See the equal sign and the plus or minus number in quotes? That's
what I'm talking
about.
Also notice that the end command for a <FONT SIZE="--"> flag only requires
</FONT>. I should tell you now that there are two other attributes you can use inside
the FONT flag: COLOR and FACE
(these both have tutorials unto themselves. Take a look). But even if you use all three inside a
FONT flag, you still only need one </FONT>.
Remember that an attribute is inside of a flag. When you use an end command, you are closing the
flag, not the attribute. So you only need the one end flag, like above.
Centering Text
Since you've already done some writing you've no doubt noticed
that the text that appeared in the browser window was justified to the left of the screen. That's
what's known as the default. It just happens without your specifying any particular
justification.
Notice that this text is centered on the page. It's done by surrounding the text you
want centered with simple <CENTER> and </CENTER>
commands.
Here's what it looks like:
<CENTER>All text in here will be centered
</CENTER>
Text To The Right
Can you get text to the right? Sure. It's done by setting the text
aside as a paragraph unto itself. I'm going to use the <P> command you learned in Lesson Day 2, but now I'm going to alter it. I'm going to
add an attribute to it.
Here's the format:
<P ALIGN="right">Text in here is pushed to the right</P>
See how I added the ALIGN="right" attribute to the <P> command? Okay, but you also
have to remember that if you add an attribute to a single flag like the <P> flag, or the
<BR> flag (yes, there are attributes for BR), then you'll
need to use an end flag. See the </P> up there?
If you're just using <P> to create a new paragraph, then it can sit all by its lonesome. But
the moment you add an attribute=, you need to use the end flag.
And Lesson Day #3 comes to an end. Notice they're getting
shorter? Now go and incorporate a few of these Heading, FONT SIZE, and CENTER commands
into a page. To do is to learn. A brilliant man once said that... I think he had a moustache,
too.
