| <BLOCKQUOTE> |
blockquote: indicates content quoted from another source.
This block element should be used ideally only when the
quotation is longer and will likely span several lines (for
shorter, in-line quotations the new <Q>
element is suggested.) It is usually rendered with a left
indent and possibly an equal right indent as well. Example:
<blockquote>
Now is the time to come to the aid of your country. Now is
the time to come to the aid of your country. Now is the
time to come to the aid of your country. Now is the time to
come to the aid of your country. Now is the time to come to
the aid of your country. Now is the time to come to the aid
of your country.
<blockquote>
Now is the time to come to the aid of your country. Now is
the time to come to the aid of your country. Now is the
time to come to the aid of your country. Now is the time to
come to the aid of your country. Now is the time to come to
the aid of your country.
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
Displays:
Now is the time to come to the aid of your country. Now
is the time to come to the aid of your country. Now is
the time to come to the aid of your country. Now is the
time to come to the aid of your country. Now is the time
to come to the aid of your country. Now is the time to
come to the aid of your country.
Now is the time to come to the aid of your country.
Now is the time to come to the aid of your country.
Now is the time to come to the aid of your country.
Now is the time to come to the aid of your country.
Now is the time to come to the aid of your country.
|
| <BR> |
breakline: explicitly indicates that a line break be
placed in a section of content. This overrides the typical
HTML behavior which lets the browser decide when to put
line breaks in a document. The same indentation level
applied to the previous line will be applied to the new
line of content. Example:
This is an example of a line <br>
break moving text to the next line.
Displays:
This is an example of a line
break moving text to the next line. |
| <CENTER> |
center: centers the text it contains in the browser
window. The element was created to fill the need for
authors to have some text alignment controls, but most of
the effects this element produces have been absorbed by
other block formatting elements as the ALIGN attribute
(which extends control to right alignment and justification
as well.)
The interaction rules for this element are somewhat unusual
since it was created by Netscape
and implemented by many other browsers before it was
officially integrated in to HTML 3.2. CENTER behaves most
closely like other block formatting elements (in that a
block is defined by having a line break before and after
the contained content.) Example:
<center>This is an example
of centered text.</center>
Displays:
This is an example of centered
text. |
| <DIV> |
div: allows for alignment and formatting of a block of
text (with an implied line break before and after).
Within the realm of Style Sheets, this element is nestable
to allow hierarchies of sections, subsections or chapters
to be defined. This nesting ability also allows for
powerful Style Sheet mechanisms to be applied. Example:
<div
align="right">This is an example of right
justified text.</center>
Displays:
This is an example of right justified text.
|
| <NOBR> |
nobreak: for special sequences of text where you do not
want a the browser to insert a line break where there might
a space. The <nobr> tag works similar to using the
hard-space character in a word processor. See <WBR>
below. |
| <P> |
paragraph: defines a paragraph. The exact indentation,
leading space, etc. of a paragraph is not specified and may
be a function of other tags, style sheets, etc. Paragraphs
are typically surrounded by a vertical space of one line or
a half line. Additionally, the first line in the paragraph
may be indented in some cases. Example:
This is some text before the
start of the new paragraph. <p>This is an example of
text inside of a paragraph.</p> This is some text
after the paragraph.
Displays:
This is some text before the start of
the new paragraph.
This is an example of text inside of a paragraph.
This is some text after the paragraph.
You can also use the paragraph tag to align text. Example:
This is some text before the
start of the new paragraph. <p
align="center">This is an example of text
inside of a paragraph with the
<code>align="center"</code>
attribute.</p> This is some text after the paragraph.
Displays:
This is some text before the start of
the new paragraph.
This is an example of text inside of a
paragraph with the align="center"
attribute.
This is some text after the paragraph. |
| <WBR> |
word break: used for the very rare case when you have a
<NOBR> section and you know exactly where you want it
to break or when you know where you want a possible
word-break to occur. This tag does not work correctly in
some browsers. For example, to see how the <WBR> tag
and the <NOBR> tag work in this browser, consider the
following HTML code:
<nobr>This is a really
super-duper, extremely long run of no <wbr> break
text which should be broken only where we tell it to and
nowhere else</nobr>
Displays:
This text will be displayed by the
browser like so: This is a really super-duper,
extremely long run of no break text which
should be broken only where we tell it to and nowhere else |