In the years since the first development of HTML, many other computer languages have been developed to enhance the pages displayed on the Internet. These languages include JavaScript, VBS, Perl, ASP, and .Net. However, I will show you that you can enhance your web page just using HTML. This is especially important if you are new to web page development and have not had the time to learn another language.
HTML Methods to Remember and Use Effectively - Text Enhancing (Page 3 of 4 )
Text enhancing
We can also use HTML tags to enhance the actual text on our page. We can specify the type, size, color, and whether or not the text is highlighted. We can also add scrolling or appearing/disappearing text to our page. We can set the color of our text in the body tag by using its text attribute, like this: <body text="blue">. This also works for link color by using the link attribute in the body tag.
With the font tag, we can change not only the color of our text, but also its size and type by using the size, color, and face attributes. Here is an example of the code:
The font size ranges from 1 to 7. We picked our color from the color chart (we can also use hex code) and the font type is a TrueType font (some common types that work well are Arial, Helvetica, Courier, and Times).
To highlight a particular portion of text we will use the following code:
This code will highlight our selected text in yellow. Notice that we used the span tag here. This tag was created to take full advantage of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). That is why it has a style attribute. However, this works even if we do not have a CSS. This also works well to highlight any links that we have on our page. We just substitute the following code: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com"><span style="background-color: #FFFF00">Microsoft</SPAN></a> for the code above. A different way of doing this is: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com" style="background:yellow; color:black">Microsoft</a>. We can take our pick!
Next, let us enhance our page by using a scrolling marquee. In fact, the HTML tag for this is marquee. This is the code we will use: <marquee bgcolor="#80FF00" loop="infinite" >My scrolling text</marquee>. This code will place a green background line (the banner) on the page in which the selected text will continuously scroll right to left.
To have the text scroll a limited number of times, replace infinite with a number. The marquee tag has the following additional attributes: height, width, align, direction, behavior, hspace, scrollamount, scrolldelay, and vspace. The height and width attributes determine the size of the marquee banner (as a percentage of screen height and width).
The align attribute has three values (top, middle, or bottom) that position the text in the banner. The direction attribute naturally changes the direction of the scroll (values of left or right with right being the default). The behavior attribute has three values (scroll, slide, or alternate).
Scroll is the default value, slide makes the text come to a stop, and alternate makes the text come in on either side of the screen. The hspace and vspace attributes determine the amount of space around the text (this is in pixels). The scrollamount attribute tells the browser how much space to put between successive scrolls (this is in pixels).
Finally, the scrolldelay attribute determines the number of milliseconds between scrolls (in thousands of milliseconds). We can experiment with all the attributes to get just the right effect. We can also replace the text with an image, which is really neat! We just replace the text with the following code: <img src="myimage.gif">.
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