Entering, editing, and formatting text on a Web page is a
major part of a Webmaster??™s job. Dreamweaver gives you the tools to make
the task as clear-cut as possible. From headlines to comments, this chapter covers
the essentials of working with basic text; inserting and formatting dynamic data
is covered in Chapter 19.
At first, Web designers didn??™t have many options for manipulating text. However,
now the majority of browsers understand a number of text-related commands,
and the designer can specify the font as well as its color and size. Dreamweaver
includes a range of text-manipulation tools. All these topics are covered in this
chapter, along with an important discussion of how to manipulate whitespace on
the Web page.
Starting with Headings
Text in HTML is primarily composed of headings and paragraphs. Headings separate
and introduce major sections of the document, just as a newspaper uses
headlines to announce a story and subheads to highlight essential details. HTML
has six levels of headings; the syntax for the heading tags is
, where n is a
number from 1 to 6. The largest heading is , and the smallest is .
Although Dreamweaver is capable of outputting several
different types of Web pages??”ASP, ColdFusion, JSP,
and so on??”after the page has been executed on the application server, straight
HTML is returned to the visitor??™s browser.
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