If your planning on making a web page you will soon learn how important text is to any web page. To begin with it is used in introductions, news postings, and even in image galleries. Also it can be used when telling when a page was last updated.
The first thing you need to know is the paragraph tag. It looks like this <p>whatever you want say</p>. The paragraph tag allows for the placment of text on a web page. When used the paragrapgh tag will automaticly make a line break and then display the text entered within it. For example if you wanted to say "hello world!!!" on your web page you would enter the following HTML...

Now that you know how to display text. you are ready to learn text formatting. Using HTML it is possible to make your text bold, italic, and underlined. All text formatting tags are entered within the paragraph tag. To bold text you use the following tag <b>bold text</b>. To make text in italics you put your text in the following tag <i>italic text goes here</i>. Underlining is done the same way, however instead of putting your text in the <i>...</i> tags you put it in the <u>...</u>. Also, you can combine tags like this <i><b>HI </b></i> to display things such as HI. An example of text formatting would be if you wanted to display the following.
