Text Attribute Examples

Bold Font Example

My preferred browser is Netscape Navigator.

Basefont Example

Netscape Navigator lets the user select a comfortable base font size, but this can be reset for all or part of a page. Doing so causes subsequent font size changes to execute relative to the new base font size.

Bigger Font Example

As Alice ate the cookies, she felt herself grow bigger, and bigger, and bigger.

Blinking Font Example

Blinking text can be annoying, so use it sparingly.

Inline Citation Example

Mozilla said to the crowd, "Visit Netscape’s web site."

Code Example

The onLoad attribute for the BODY tag lets you define an action that occurs when the document has finished loading. For example, onLoad="function1(); function2(); return false;". Notice that the onLoad code should always return false.

Emphasis Example

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Font Example

Here you see the effect of using the FONT tag to change the font to a green sans-serif font. Now the font will change to a red font that has a size of 18 points.

Italic Example

Putting text in italic can slant its meaning.

Keyboard Font Example

At the first prompt, enter the user name trainee and at the next prompt enter the password goodlearner.

Small Font Example

When Alice ate from the Caterpillar's mushroom, she grew smaller and smaller and smaller.

Strike Example

The judge ordered that the witness's testimony be struck from the record.

Strike-through text often indicates text that has been changed.

Strong Example

CAUTION! Do not press the reset key unless you have tried every other way to reboot the computer.

Subscript Example

The chemical notation for water is H20.

Superscript Example

If Einstein was right, then e=mc2.

Typewriter Font Example

To run the program, type xyz at the command prompt.

Underline Example

All the text in this paragraph is underlined.

Variable Example

In this example, the global variable doc1 is bound to the current document.