Great ideas in computer science with java by Alan W. Biermann, Dietolf Ramm

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Ordered Lists Ordered lists are also quite useful . . To make words boldface or italic, use or . Suppose you wish to type something and be guaranteed that the characters and spacing you use will be displayed on a Web page. You can use the tag

 to do this.  Thus, the HTML 
 H H H H HHHHH H H H H 
 I I I I I will show on a Web page as 12 Chapter 1 H H I H H I HHHHH I H H I I H H If you wish to put in a horizontal line, try 
.  You can put parameters on this, as in 
, which means use a size 4 line and cover only 50 percent of the window width. 

Applet.  As stated before, this makes it suitable for use from a Web browser.  After the opening brace, we ®nd the statement declaring the data items m1 and m2: TextField m1,m2; The statement says that m1 and m2 are objects of type TextField.  TextField is itself a class that has been provided to us with the Java language.  It displays rectangles on the screen that can contain text.  We are saying here that we want two data items of the 30 Chapter 2 TextField class and that we have named them m1 and m2. 
An interesting exercise for anyone studying HTML is to examine Web pages that others have created and see how they formatted them.  You can do this by ®nding a page of interest on the Web and clicking on the View menu item of the browser to see the actual HTML that created that page.  For example, if you go to Biermann's Web page and click on View, you will get this: 13 The World Wide Web