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newriver
04-03-2002, 18:42/06:42PM
I'm brand new to html, so your help would be appreciated.

If I wanted to modify an H tag for formatting. How would I do it.

Example: I know I can use h1, h2, or h3. Can I use h1 with a modifying something to reduce the size and alter the appearance?
Hope
04-03-2002, 18:56/06:56PM
Yes you can use the different h tags to get different font sizes.

The other option is to change the h tag properties. This can be done in two ways. One is by using style sheets. Style sheets are much cleaner. The other way is to do soemthing like this.

<h1><font size="1"></font></h1>
MsSearch
04-03-2002, 19:01/07:01PM
You could use external stylesheets or add this to your code in the <HEAD>:

<STYLE TYPE="TEXT/CSS">
h1 {font-size:14pt}
h2 {font-size:12pt; color: #FF0000; font-family: arial, helvitica}
h3 {font-size:10pt}
</STYLE>

you can define whatever size you wish...as well as define color, font-family, etc...
newriver
05-03-2002, 00:18/12:18AM
Thank you kindly
MsSearch
05-03-2002, 11:15/11:15AM
If you want to make this an external stylesheet....

add this line of code in the <HEAD>:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="name of stylesheet .css" type="text/css">

Copy and paste whatever styles you defined (i'll use the above example) onto a blank page...

h1 {font-size:14pt}
h2 {font-size:12pt; color: #FF0000; font-family: arial, helvitica}
h3 {font-size:10pt}

(if these are the only three styles you defined then this is all that will be in the stylesheet)

Save the file as name of stylesheet.css

Hope this helps (i also hopes this makes sense)....
Kal
05-03-2002, 19:30/07:30PM
Hey newriver, what program are you using to edit your HTML? If you're using a WYSIWYG type one such as Front Page, you can change text into heading tags very easily by highlighting the text and changing the font properties from "normal" to Heading 1, Heading 2 etc, just like you do in MS Word.
Cream
07-03-2002, 16:17/04:17PM
Probably a dumb question, but I noticed that I could change the font size of a H1 word to something smaller, say 10pt.

I wonder if by doing this, I would lose the erm, high relevancy/weightage/whatchamacalit attached to a H1 word.


Just Add...
...Cream
markymark
09-03-2002, 05:55/05:55AM
If the h1 tag is controlled by .css, then the answer is no, the weighting will stay the same.

However, Hope's example above is poor html and I believe that the search engines will see this as an empty <h1></h1> tag which defeats the purpose somewhat !
Blue
09-03-2002, 12:29/12:29PM
An excellent CSS editor (TopStyle) can be found here (http://www.bradsoft.com) for those newbies wishing to get into CSS as well as HTML.

They have both pro level and "lite" level editors, and an unlimited usage trial version of the Pro version. And if you use Dreamweaver, there is an extension (http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle/download/dwextension.asp) that integrates Topstyle nicely with DW.
MsSearch
11-03-2002, 10:55/10:55AM
I'm a BIG fan of TopStyle....I use it with HomeSite