Text Styles and Symbols Overview

This lesson is about styling text for visual effect and how to use block-level styles, symbols, and foreign language content so that the meaning is communicated clearly to all.

A key principle is to use HTML code as it was intended. These are some unorthodox ways people are tempted to use code.

Do not:

  • use <h>tags for styling text for visual effect when the text is not a heading,
  • use  blockquote tags for non-quoted material to get indented margins, or
  • use table code to lay out elements on a page in relation to each other.

Module Content

This module covers

  • Text styles and abbreviations
  • Box styles  
  • Foreign language tags
  • Symbols

For descriptions of the various tags, see the HTML tag references from W3Schools. 

 

 

Updated January, 2017