Lesson 3: Aligning Text

Overview

Aligning text helps in the organization of the Web page using the following tags and attributes align text, create paragraph breaks, line breaks, and non-breaking spaces.

Learner Outcomes

At the end of this lesson students will have a basic understanding of organizing the Web page and the effects on its appearance.

Activities

1. Paragraph breaks
   • HTML does not recognize the returns that you enter when typing so you must specify where you want each paragraph.
     • Type <P> in front of each paragraph on your Web page. It is a good idea to end the paragraph but is not always necessary.
     • To end the paragraph type </P>
     
     
   • Aligning Text
     • Align is an attribute found inside a tag. To use the align attribute type the following:
       • <P Align="direction"> where direction is either left, right, or center.
     
     
   • Line Breaks
     • Line breaks specify where each line of text begins.
       • <BR> appears in front of each line of text.
     
     
   • Non-Breaking Spaces
     • Web browsers usually ignore extra spaces you add. In order to show additional spacing you must add a code for the blanks. The following code must be typed for each space:
       • &nbsp; add as many as are needed for your spacing.