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he <style> tag
The <style> tag defines a style in a document.
 
The style element goes in the head section. If you want to include a style sheet in your page, you should define the style sheet externally, and link to it using <link>. Using this tag you can initialize the text properties as shown in the example. In the example color for the header tag is defined initially in the header part of the file using the <style> tag.
 
Format Example Output
<head>
<style type=”text/css”>
h1 {color: yellow}
h3 {color: lightgreen}
</style>
</head>		 <html>
<head>
<style type=”text/css”>
h3 {color: red}
h4 {color: blue}
</style>
<title>style tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>This is header < h3> </h3>
<h4>This is header < h4> </h4>
</body>
</html>

This is header < h3>

This is header < h4>
 
In the above example, h3 is a tag which will be displayed in red color which has been mentioned in the style tag. Just like h3 tag there is a tag i.e., h4 which will be displayed in the blue color which has been mentioned in the style sheet.
 
 
Attributes
 
Attribute Value Description
type text/css Defines the content-type
 
Just write/copy this example on any text editor new file and save the file and open in the browser and see how it looks.
 
 
The <div> tag
The <div>tag defines a division/section in a document. Use the <div> tag to group block-elements to format them with styles. This tag is used below the <body> tag.
 
Format Example Output
<body>
<div style=” ” > </div>
</body>		 <html>
<body>
This is some text
<div style=”color:red”>
<h4>This is a header in a div section</h4>
<p>This is a paragraph in a div section</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>		 This is some text

This is a header in a div section

This is a paragraph in a div section
 
Attributes
Attribute Value Description
align left, right, top, bottom How to align the text in the div element. better use style attribute.
 
Now lets have an example of both the tag.
Just write/copy this example on any text editor new file and save the file and open in the browser and see how it looks.
 
Example:
<html>
<head>
<style type=”text/css”>
h1 {color: red}
h3 {color: blue}
</style>
<title>style tag</title>
</head> <body>
Use of STYLE tag
<h1>This is header H1 text </h1>
<h3>This is header H3 text </h3>
Use of DIV tag
<div style=”color:#FF0000;”>
This is a header in a div section
<br>This is a paragraph in a div section
</div><br>
</body>
</html>
 
Page in browser will Look Like:
 
 
In the above example we have seen the use of <style> and <div> tags. the both the headers h1 & h3 are displayed in the Red and Blue color because their color has been defined in the style tags. Then we saw the use of <div> tag, so the text defined in the <div> tag in displayed in the color defined inside the <div> tag.
 
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Marquee Text with <marquee> Tags
This tag is used to to get a moving text. As on the television you see the moving news headlines. You can do this by using the <marquee> tag.
 
Format:
<marquee> Write the text to be scrolled </marquee>
 
Example:
<marquee> Write the text to be scrolled </marquee>
 
Attributes
 
Attribute Value Description
bgcolor colorcode,colorname Defines the back ground color to the text.
behavior alternet, slide Defines the type of movement to the text.
direction down, up, right, left Defines the movement direction of the text.
loop positive integer Defines the no. of times to text will scroll.
scrollamount positive integer Defines the scrolling speed of the text.
title text Defines text will appear when mouse pointer is on it.
width, height positive integer Defines the area of scrolling.
 
Behavior attribute
alternet: for this value the text bounces across the scroll region.
slide: for this value the text slides into position.
 
if you do not defines the behavior attribute then the text keeps scrolling continues manner according to the direction. BLINKING TEXT with <blink>Tag
 
This blinking text is the text which blinks like a bulb with on/off system. This blinking of text can be achieved in the HTML using the <blink> Tag.
 
Format :
<blink> write the text to blink </blink>
 
Example:
<blink> This is the blinking text. </blink> so now lets do some practical.
 
Just write/copy this example on any text editor new file and save the file and open in the browser and see how it looks.
 
Example:
<html>
<head>
<title>Marquee & Blink </title>
</head>
<body>
<b>Marquee text with <br>
direction=up height=50 width=200 scrollamount=1 bgcolor=lightyellow </b>
<br>
<marquee style=”color: #FF0000; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana” direction=”up” height=”50″ width=”200″ scrollamount=”1″ bgcolor=”lightyellow”> this is scrolling text</marquee></p>
<p><b>Marquee text with <br>
direction=left height=20 behavior=alternate scrollamount=10 bgcolor=lightyellow </b>
<marquee style=”color: #FF0000; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana” direction=”left” height=”20″ behavior=”alternate” scrollamount=”10″ bgcolor=”lightyellow”> this is scrolling text</marquee><br>
<br>
<b>Marquee text with <br>
direction=left height=20 scrollamount=10 bgcolor=lightyellow </b>
<marquee style=”color: #FF0000; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana” direction=”left” height=”20″ scrollamount=”10″ bgcolor=”lightyellow”> this is scrolling text</marquee><br>
<br>
<font face=”Verdana”>
<b>BLINKING TEXT</b></font></p>
</p>
<font color=”#FF0000″><b>
<BLINK> <font face=”Verdana”>This is the blinking text.</BLINK></b></font>
</body>
</html>
 
Page in browser will Look Like:
 
 this is scrolling text
 
this is scrolling text
 
this is scrolling text
  
 
In the above example we have used both the <marquee> & <blink> tags and output is shown. In case of <blink> tag it might happen that the text displayed in <blink> tag do not appears to be blinking. It is all because the Internet Explorer do not support the blinking text where as the Netscape Navigator supports.
 
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