Once upon a time, someone decreed that the headline of an HTML
page should be larger and bolder than the rest of the text - just like in the tabloids. And it was so. Headlines can range in size from h1 (quite large) to h6 (quite small). All in all, the headline tag isn't too hard to master. They're switched on with a
tag such as <h1> and switched off with a corresponding </h1>.
If you write in your HTML file:
<h1>EXTRA! COW KILLS FARMER WITH AX</h1>
You'll get:
EXTRA! COW KILLS FARMER WITH AX
If you type:
<h2>Teacher Strikes Idle Kids!</h2>
You'll get:
Teacher Strikes Idle Kids!
Pret
ty easy, huh? Well, if you're already getting bored, we know one headline trick you can exploit for your own happiness (if you're using Netscape). By using, say, <h2> along with <pre> you can preformat text (saving your returns and spaces) i
n a large, bold font, traipsing blithely past the philosophical differences between the fixed-width and proportional type faces. But the tricky part is you must put the headline tag outside the <pre> tags for it to work.
If you put t
his in your HTML doc:
<h1><pre>Fixed width? Fooey!</pre></h1>
You'll get this:
Fixed width? Fooey!
Note, once again, that
at "press" time, the <h1> used with <pre> only worked reliably on Netscape browsers. However, you may get similar results by noodling around with the <font size> and <tt> (that's "teletype," as in the machine) tags.
Got a handle on it? Now try it yourself.