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 and 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.  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.