Creating Your Own Web Page

Kimberly C. Walls, Nov. 2, 1996

Last revised July 27, 1998

3. Adding text


3. Adding text

Paragraph tags

Next, replace Text with the following tag: <P ALIGN=LEFT> This tag indicates that the following text begins a paragrah which should line up at the left margin. Every following paragraph will be aligned to the left margin until you indicate otherwise by a <P ALIGN=RIGHT>, <P ALIGN=CENTER>, or <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY> tag.

Now type (or cut and paste) in your first paragraph. Type a paragraph tag, <P> before the start of each paragraph.

Line Breaks

The <BR> tag, when inserted will cause text following it to begin on the next line, but does not indicate the start of a paragraph. 

Word Breaks

The tag, <WBR>, in the middle of a word will cause the word to break to the next line. 

Save the file as text

Final and most important step--save the file as an ASCII file and a proper file name. Under the File menu, go to the Save As... command. Name the file something followed by .html (don't use any spaces, non-letter, nor number characters) or .htm. Save the file as a plain text file (ASCII or TXT).