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Creating a Web Page

 

     
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      Creating the left and right margins

 

You will notice, when you look at your page in  Internet Explorer that the text goes from one end of the screen to the other. 

Put the opening <BLOCKQUOTE> right under the <BODY> tag and the closing </BLOCKQUOTE> at the end of your web page just before the closing </BODY> tag. This will move your text away from the edges of the screen. You can move the text even further from the edges of the screen with additional opening and closing <BLOCKQUOTE> tags.

 

<HTML>

<HEAD>
<TITLE>
page title </ TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>
<BLOCKQUOTE>

 

Paste your text here.

 

 </BLOCKQUOTE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

 

Save this change:  File - Save As
Make sure the Save In: box displays the right folder
Make sure the 
Save as type: box says All Files
You may click on your file name instead of typing it, make sure you click on the one with the blue e in front of it.
Do not add  .html after your file's nam
e, 

Check the changes in Internet Explorer by going to File - Refresh or clicking the F5 key. 

Your text will be further from the edges of the screen screen  and will still be in one large paragraph.