Familiarise yourself with seven of the most-used elements.

Lesson : A few more elements

Did you manage to make a few pages on your own? If not, here is an
example:

Code:: <html>

<head>
<title>My website</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>A Heading</h1>
text, text text, text
<h2>Subhead</h2>
text, text text, text
</body>

</html>

Now what?

Now it is time to learn seven new elements.
In the same way you emphasise the text by putting it between the
openning tag and the closing tag ,
you can give stronger emphasis by using the openning tag
and the closing tag .

Example 1:

Code:: Stronger emphasis.

Will look like this in the browser:

Stronger emphasis.

Likewise, you can make your text smaller using small:

Example 2:

Code:: This should be in small.

Will look like this in the browser:

This should be in small.

Can I use several elements at the same time?

You can easily use several elements at the same time as long as you avoid
overlapping elements. This is best illustrated by an example:

Example 3:
If you want to emphasise small text, it must be done like this:

Code:: Emphasised small text

And NOT like this:

Code:: Emphasise small text

The difference is that in the first example, we closed the tag we
first opened last. This way we avoid confusing both ourselves and the
browser.

More elements!

As mentioned in Lesson 3 there are elements which are opened
and closed in the same tag. These so-called empty elements are
not connected to a specific passage in the text but rather are isolated
labels. An example of such a tag is
which
creates a forced line break:

Example 4:

Code:: Some text and some more text in a new line

Will look like this in the browser:

Some text
and some more text in a new line

Notice that the tag is written as a contraction of an opening and
closing tag with an empty space and a forward slash at the end: />.
Another element that is opened and closed in the same tag is /> which is used to draw a horizontal line ("hr" stands for
"horizontal rule"):

Example 5:

Code:: <hr />

Will look like this in the browser:

Examples of elements that needs both an opening tag and a closing tag
- as most elements do - is ul, ol and li.
These elements are used when you want to make lists.

ul is short for "unordered list" and inserts bullets for
each list item. ol is short for "ordered list" and
numbers each list item. To make items in the list use the li
tag ("list item"). Confused? See the examples:

Example 7:

Code:: <ul>
<li>A list item</li>
<li>Another list item</li>
</ul>

will look like this in the browser:

A list item
Another list item

Example 8:

Code:: <ol>
<li>First list item</li>
<li>Second list item</li>
</ol>

will look like this in the browser:

First list item
Second list item

Phew! Is that all?

That is all for now. Again, experiment and make your own pages using
some of the seven new elements you learned in this lesson:

Code:: Stronger emphasis
Small text
 Line shift
<hr /> Horizontal line
<ul>List</ul>
<ol>Ordered list</ol>
<li>List item</li>