Bold & Italic Text

Both bold (bold) and italic (italic) text are used to show emphasis. Lucky for us, they're two of the easiest tags to learn!

<b> creates bold text
</b> closes bold text
<i> creates italic text
</i> closes italic text

To create bold text, just sandwich the word(s) you want to appear in bold with the tags <b> and </b>.

For example, you might want to say something like:

<b>Help!</b> This is my <b>first</b> home page!
Which would look like this:

Help! This is my first home page!

To create italics, just sandwich the words you want to appear in italic with the tags <i> and </i>. For example, you could say:

<b>Help!</b> This is my <b>first</b> home page, and I <i>really</i> am so confused!
Which will look like:

Help! This is my first homepage, and I really am so confused!
Review

<B></B>

The BOLD tag set causes the text between the tags to be in BOLD print. Good for emphasis. Also used is the <STRONG></STRONG> tag set which give the same effect as the <B></B> tag set. The BOLD set is used more often.

<I></I>

This tag set indicates what is between the text is italicized. Another nice one to use for emphasis. Also used for italics is <EM></EM> or the tag for Emphasis. The ITALIC set is used more often.

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