Vance's e-Zguide "10 steps to creating simple HTML files" Step 5 Formatting bold and italics
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Concept: The formatting commands for bold and italics

Explanation:

• Bold and italics are easy. The tags are <B> .. </B> and <I> .. </I>.
• Simply enclose bracket the text you want formatted between the beginning and ending tags.

What's coming: Now let's see how easy it is to insert images in web documents.

• 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
• 4. Formatting text: breaking the text into lines with line breaks
• 5. Formatting text: bold and italics <-- You are here!
• 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