I bet you’re tired of having all your text look the same. You want to add a little pizazz and flair. This tutorial is going to show you a couple of baby steps for making your text exciting.

Strong Text Formatting

If you want to make a bold statement, to make something stand out, to have people pick phrases out of the middle of the page, then the <strong> tag is for you. Here’s how it looks in your code:

And on your page:

Place the text you want to strengthen in between the strong tags.

Emphasized Text Formatting

If you simply want to emphasize text without breaking up the flow of your paragraph completely, use the <em> tag. Code:

And on the page:

Place the text that you want to emphasize in between the em tags.

A Word about Italics

In some situations, like with book titles, you’ll want to use the italics tags, <i> and </i>. In most situations, however, italics in print are used to emphasize text, and so most of the time you should stick to the <em> tags.

Now go back over the text you may have entered into your web pages and spice things up—strengthen certain points and emphasize key phrases!