Two more tags that come in useful are the Bold and Italic tags. They are quite easy to use. Here are the Bold tags:
<B> </B>
And here are the Italic tags:
<i> </i>
The text you want to change goes between the two tags:
<B> ... Rest of Hamlet's Soliloquy goes here</B>
<i> ... Rest of Hamlet's Soliloquy goes here</i>
If you want Bold and Italic text then you can nest the two:
<B><i> ... Rest of Hamlet's Soliloquy goes here</i></B>
The two I tags go between the two B tags. You can have it the other way around, though, with the I tags first:
<i><B> ... Rest of Hamlet's Soliloquy goes here</B></i>
Be careful of this, however:
<i><B> ... Rest of Hamlet's Soliloquy goes here</i></B>
This is a mismatched pair of tags. The two tags on the inside are B and I, and the ones on the outside are I and B. A modern browser will probably correct the mismatch, but older ones may not.
Try it in your HTML code:
Save and view the results in your browser:
There is also an underline tag you can use:
<U> ... Rest of Hamlet's Soliloquy goes here</U>
You can nest all three tags: bold, italics, and underline:
<U><B><i> ... Rest of Hamlet's Soliloquy goes here</i></B></U>
All this nested HTML code can be a bit messy, however. The modern solution is to use something called a Cascading Stylesheet. Using a Stylesheet allows you to do all your text formatting in the HEAD section, or better yet in an external file. (You'll see how to do all this shortly.)