Changing the colour of individual parts of a line or paragraph
If you want to change the colour of a piece of writing on a page, if this is a full paragraph, inside the <p></p> tags, or a heading style, inside the <h1></h1> tags, you would normally have to live with the fact that it all changes together. In HTML5 we now have a new tag <span>. This will allow us to put in different formatting in the middle of a paragraph or heading line.If you are creating your website correctly, you should be putting all the formatting into a 'content style sheet', however, the concept is the same whether you put the style information into each HTML page or into a separate style sheet.I will do this all in one HTML document, you can split this up into a CSS and the webpage.Type the following into your text editor.<style type="text/css">.fontcolour { color:#ff00ff; }</style><head> <title>My font colour test</title> </head><body> <h1><span class="fontcolour">T</span>his is a test</h1> </body>Save this and run it in a browser. You should now have the line 'This is a test' written with the first letter in a different colour, like this example.You can, of course add in other formatting into the style to make a myriad of different effects.
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Some pictures while you wait
Pictures taken on the 12th of December 2012, after a severe overnight frost hit most of England.
So, enjoy this trip through my site and please feel free to comment on any part. I may not take any notice, but then, it is my site.
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Although I have upgraded this site to support the new HTML5, I am still a learner myself. If you have any tips you would like to share with me and the visitors to this site, I will gladly add your contributions to the contributions pages.
