Lesson 5: Aligning Text
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You can change the position of the text on a page by
adding an alignment tag. These tags are added within
already existing tags, such as paragraph or heading tags.
ALIGN=CENTER will center the item
ALIGN=RIGHT will move the item to the right margin
of the page
If you do not specify alignment the object will automatically
be aligned on the left.
Assignment 5
Open the assignment from lesson 4 and make the
following changes:
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Aligning Paragraphs on the Web</TITLE> </HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Aligning Paragraphs on the Web</H1>
<P>By placing the paragraph tag at the beginning of the
paragraph, I have told the computer that this is a <I>new
paragraph</I> and to behave accordingly and skip a line
and then begin on the next line. </P>
<P ALIGN=RIGHT>See how easy this is? HTML is not
hard as long as you remember to put the closing tags
where you need them. When you forget the computer
does all sorts of things that it shouldn't because you
didn't tell it to stop doing something.
<P> See that last time we did <B>not</B> put the
closing tag and the computer still knew to begin another
paragraph. This tag does not require the closing tag. It
is optional.
</BODY>
</HTML>
end of lesson
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