User:Ccsmith/sandbox?HTML and Wikitext - Lesson 4

Divisions and Paragraphs
Let's now turn our attention to divisions or blocks of material that we might want to treat differently from the rest of the material on the page. A table is a block of material and we manipulate it to suit our needs. But there are other blocks of material that also might need to be treated differently such as a block of text or images. For that we have two main elements:  and   tags.


 * A  tag (stands for division) segregates a block of material that might include images, tables, text, etc.  We may want this block of material to appear differently than the rest of the material on our page.


 * A  (stands for paragraph) usually deals with a block of text.  We may want it to be emphasize it such as surrounding it with a border or making it smaller in size and centering it on the page.

We manipulate either of these elements with the same codes as we do with tables, such as alignment, colors, etc. Let's look at each in detail.

Lists
Let's start a whole new topic - lists. There are two kinds of lists:

Fonts

 * Font-family
 * Font-size
 * Font-weight
 * Font-style
 * Font- variant

Floating as opposed to align
Floating for text wrapping around images for example.
 * Left
 * Right
 * None

Position

 * Absolute
 * Relative
 * Fixed
 * Static
 * Top
 * Bottom
 * Left
 * Right
 * Overflow
 * Z index

Internal

 * headers are anchors.