Bodyworks- Basic Formatting

Formatting just refers to the appearance of the text of the page.
One of the quirks of coding in HTML is that what you see is NOT what you get. The computer does not recognize extra white space. Don't bother spending hours lining up the text in your document until it is just the way you want it. The computer will blissfully ignore your hard work.
In order to get things looking the way you want them, you need to speak to the computer in terms it will understand. That's right- in code, using basic commands. Here are a few helpful ones:

<H1> Heading 1 </H1>

<H2> Heading 2 </H2>

<H3> Heading 3 </H3>

<H4> Heading 4 </H4>

The heading tags set the size of the text font, embolden the text and set the text apart from the line following it.
<center> hmmm..wonder what this does </center>

<b> </b>
The boldface tag tells the computer to start and stop bolding text.

<BR> line break
This functions like a carriage return. Get to know this one.
You'll use it lots and lots.

<HR> horizontal rule makes a line like this:

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