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Chapter 2 - Headings, Line breaks, and Horizontal lines? ?

What is a Heading?
An HTML Heading tag is a tag that will separate your web page by the important titles or important subjects on that page.? Here is an example of the sizes of Heading tags.? The lower the number, the bigger the font of the Heading.?
Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4
The HTML tags for a Heading are
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for Heading 1,
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for Heading 2, etc...?
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What are Line breaks?
Line breaks are tags that put typewriter-type carriage returns at the end of a line forcing the next line to go back to where the original margin is set.? Simply put, a Line break will start a new line.? Here is an example of what the Line break tag is, and where it goes.?
This is my page.
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This is the second line.
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This is the third line.
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Note that there isn't an ending tag for the Line break such as
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What is a Horizontal line?
A Horizontal line is used to separate information or specific areas of a webpage.? The simple tag for a Horizontal line is
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The default Hrizontal line.? The width is 100% of the area.?
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Your can use width as a percent or as actual pixels.?
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You can create a shadow effect with the "height" addition to the Horizontal line tag.?
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Chapter 2 HTML tags
Here is a brief explanation and examples of the beginning HTML tags you will need to know to create a simple HTML page.?
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Opening HTML Tag Corresponding Closing Tag Explanation of Tag

This is the Heading tag.? Size is indicated by the number.? The higher the number, the smaller the Heading.

NONE This is the Line break tag.? This puts the next pieces of information, either text or image, on the next line.

NONE This is the Horizontal line tag.? This tag allows you to separate information by drawing a line between the data.? This can be manipulated by the width and height tags aswell.