Introduction to HTML/XHTML

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to HTML/XHTML
2. Structure of an HTML Document
3. Getting Started with HTML
4. Hypertext Links
5. Including Pictures
6. A bit more on XHTML
7. Updating Existing HTML Documents to XHTML
8. Cascading Style Sheets
9. Style Properties for Text
   1. Examples of Style Properties for Text
   2. Contextual Selectors
   3. Classes
   4. Style Properties for the Anchor Tag
   5. Defining a Linked Style Sheet
   6. Adding Comments to your Style Sheet
10. Utilities
11. Books and Further Reading
12. The End

Style Properties for Text

The most common selectors apply to text and the most useful properties are included in the table below:

Property	Description
background	sets the background colour for the text
color	sets the colour for the text
font-family	sets the font type for the text
font-size	sets the size for the font and can be measured in points or a percentage of another tag, or xx-small to xx-large
font-style	normal or italic - normal is the default
font-weight	extra-light to extra-bold
text-align	left, right, center or justify
text-indent	indent from margins and is measured as a fixed size or a percentage
text-decoration	none, underline, overline, strikethrough

Note: It is important to know that once you start using a style sheet then every HTML tag element used within a document should be included in the style sheet. Even experienced Web page authors get caught-out when adding new elements to an existing Web page and the tags are not included in the style sheet and the presentation results are not what was expected.