Creating headings and paragraph elements

Creating headings and paragraph elements

Headings are an important organizational component of HTML files. You can convert existing text into headings or change heading levels.
A long, well-organized Web page tends to have many headings. You can specify the heading level of your text in several ways:

Open the Properties view if it is not already open. When you click text in the editor, the
P tab or the
Text tab in the Properties view provides a list of heading-level options that you can choose from.

Select a heading level from the drop-down menu in the Paragraph toolbar. If the toolbar is not visible, select

Display | Toolbar | Paragraph.

Click the text, and then from the main menu, select

Display | Toolbar | Paragraph, and select a heading level.

The associated heading attributes are reflected in the Design or Split tabs.
When you change the heading levels of selected text, the selected text and the entire paragraph will be changed. If you only want to change the selected text, separate it into a different paragraph. To create a new paragraph break, press
Ctrl + Enter (by default, pressing Enter creates a new line break).
If you select

Format | Paragraph and then a heading level, an empty heading level is created, so that the text you type will use that heading level. If you select text and then select

Format | Paragraph and then a heading level, only the selected text will use that heading level.
The following table lists the available paragraph types:

Type of paragraph Explanation
Normal This is a normal paragraph in the default format.
Heading There are six levels of headings: headings 1 through 6. Heading 1 is the highest level. On a Web browser, the text of the "heading" paragraph is often displayed in a bold font. The font size usually becomes smaller as the heading level increases.
Address Use this paragraph type to enter an address. On a Web browser, the text of such a paragraph is often displayed in an italic font.
Block quotation Use this paragraph type to enter a quoted statement. On a Web browser, the text of such a paragraph is often indented.
Preformatted Use this paragraph type to show the text you have input as it is. If you use this type of paragraph, you can enter spaces as much as you like by pressing the Space key. On a Web browser, the text of such a paragraph is displayed in a fixed width (monospace) font.

Related tasks

Changing character attributes
Indenting and aligning text and images
Changing element attributes
Inserting special characters
Validating HTML syntax
Checking spelling in Web pages

Type of paragraph	Explanation
Normal	This is a normal paragraph in the default format.
Heading	There are six levels of headings: headings 1 through 6. Heading 1 is the highest level. On a Web browser, the text of the "heading" paragraph is often displayed in a bold font. The font size usually becomes smaller as the heading level increases.
Address	Use this paragraph type to enter an address. On a Web browser, the text of such a paragraph is often displayed in an italic font.
Block quotation	Use this paragraph type to enter a quoted statement. On a Web browser, the text of such a paragraph is often indented.
Preformatted	Use this paragraph type to show the text you have input as it is. If you use this type of paragraph, you can enter spaces as much as you like by pressing the Space key. On a Web browser, the text of such a paragraph is displayed in a fixed width (monospace) font.