User:Ccsmith/sandbox?HTML and Wikitext - Lesson 4

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Divisions and Paragraphs
Let's now turn our attention to divisions or blocks of material that we might want to treat differently from the rest of the material on the page. A table is a block of material which we manipulate it to suit our needs. But there are other blocks of material that also might need to be treated differently such as a block of text or images. For that we have two main elements:  and   tags.


 * A  tag (stands for division) segregates a block of material that might include images, tables, text, etc.
 * We may want this block of material to appear differently than the rest of the material on our page.
 * tags require a closing  tag.


 * A  (stands for paragraph) usually deals with a block of text.  We may want it to be emphasize it such as surrounding it with a border or making it smaller in size and centering it on the page.
 * Just as we can put  tags inside   tags, we can put   tags inside of   tags.


 * Notice how the sub  tags are indented.  This is a common programming practice to help you keep track of your opening and closing tags especially if they are nested inside each other.  Lot of lines of code can be difficult to follow so indenting helps.


 * The same is true for  tags.
 * This ability allows us to do many creative things with our pages.


 * We manipulate either of these elements with the same codes as we do with tables, such as alignment, colors, etc. Let's look at each in detail.

Lists
Let's start a whole new topic - lists. There are two kinds of lists:

Fonts

 * Font-family
 * Font-size
 * Font-weight
 * Font-style
 * Font- variant

Floating as opposed to align
Floating for text wrapping around images for example.
 * Left
 * Right
 * None

Position

 * Absolute
 * Relative
 * Fixed
 * Static
 * Top
 * Bottom
 * Left
 * Right
 * Overflow
 * Z index

Internal

 * headers are anchors.