Basic Format Tags


This page gives you the HTML tags for the most frequently used text and page formatting techniques like underlining or making certain words bold, starting a new paragraph, etc.

Text Formatting Tags

The tag for underline is <u> </u>

The tag for bold is <b> </b>

The tag for italics is, you guessed it, <i> </i>

The tag for centering a section of text is <CENTER> </CENTER>


The tag for a horizontal rule is <hr>

The tag for starting

a new paragraph is <p>

The tag for a line break
is <br>

Please notice that there are no end tags for the horizontal rule, the paragraph, or the line break. That's because, unlike with bold or italics, you don't need to tell Netscape to stop using the horizontal rule or line break format. They're just one time and it's over tags.