Vance's e-Zguide "10 steps to creating simple HTML files" Step 3 Text
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Concept: Putting text on your web page

Explanation:

• Everything else besides the title all goes in the BODY area.
• Although in this context they are optional, text should be contained within <P>aragraph tags, as shown.
• When a browser finds the elements it expects in a file, it can interpret the file and display the contents on your screen.
• The browser knows to read down to BODY and display everything it sees after that (according to instructions) until it reaches the /BODY tag.

What's coming: Now let's look at a few formatting commands, such as line break, center, bold, and italics.

• 1. The basic structure tags
• 2. Putting your document title in the blue bar of the browser
• 3. Formatting text: getting the browser to display text in paragraph form <-- You are here!
• 4. Formatting text: breaking the text into lines with line breaks
• 5. Formatting text: bold and italics
• 6. Inserting images
• 7. Linking to other html files in a web project
• 8. Linking to other URLs on the Internet
• 9. More text formatting: changing font size
• 10. More formatting: centering text and images, and drawing lines across the page