Spacing

On HTML documents the spacing will be set up automatically unless you specify otherwise. You are free to write your text with whatever spacing you want, but it will not necessarily be spaced that way when you view it through a browser. For example, there is an automatic one-space gap between words, which means that if you write text like this:

'   There is     automatic
spacing         for HTML documents'

then it will nevertheless look like this:

' There is automatic spacing for HTML documents'

However, there are some ways of controlling the spacing, which are described as follows.

Line Breaks

You can produce a new line by typing <BR> (line BReak) after the appropriate text. For example:

Split this sentence<BR> with a line break.

gives

Split this sentence
with a line break.

Paragraphs

You can introduce a paragraph break by typing <P> after the appropriate text. For example:

Split this sentence <P> with a paragraph break.

gives

Split this sentence

with a paragraph break.

Horizontal Rule

Typing <HR> will produce a horizontal rule (a horizontal line) across a document, such the one above and below this section. The thickness of this can be varied by adding a SIZE qualifier. For example, the thicker line immediately below here was produced by the statement <HR SIZE=5> ! Cute isn't it ?!

Preformatted Text

Preformatted text is a piece of text whose spacing you wish to conserve. To do this you must wrap the appropriate text (and spaces) with <PRE> and </PRE>. For example:

<PRE>    This is      the spacing
that I    want.</PRE><P>

gives

    This is      the spacing
that I    want.

You ought to remember the following points:

Many of these formatting codes (we typically also call them tags come in pairs - a start of formatting tag and an end of formatting tag. An example if the <PRE> and </PRE> preformatting pair. In such a case, the second item in the pair always starts with the forward slash character ( / ).
All of our tags are in uppercase. This is not a requirement, feel free to use lowercase tags as you wish.

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