The HTML Style Attribute HTML
- HTML Introduction
- HTML Tags
- HTML Basic Examples
- HTML Headings
- HTML Paragraphs
- HTML Links
- HTML Images
- HTML Buttons
- HTML Lists
- HTML Attributes
- HTML Horizontal Rules
- The HTML <head> Element
- The HTML <pre> Element
- The HTML Style Attribute
- HTML Text Formatting
- HTML Quotation and Citation Elements
- HTML Comment Tags
- HTML Colors
- Styling HTML with CSS
- HTML Tables
- HTML Lists
- HTML The class Attribute
- HTML The id Attribute
- HTML Iframes
- HTML Form Elements
The HTML Style Attribute
Explain HTML Style Attribute
Setting the style of an HTML element can be done with the style
attribute.
The HTML style
attribute has the following syntax:
Example
<tagname style="property:value;">
The property is a CSS property. The value is a CSS value.
Background Color
The CSS background-color
property defines the background color for an HTML element.
This example sets the background color for a page to powderblue:
Example
<body style="background-color:powderblue;">
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
</body>
Text Color
The CSS color
property defines the text color for an HTML element:
Example
<h1 style="color:blue;">This is a heading</h1>
<p style="color:green;">This is a paragraph.</p>
Fonts
The CSS font-family
property defines the font to be used for an HTML element:
Example
<h1 style="font-family:verdana;">This is a heading</h1>
<p style="font-family:courier;">This is a paragraph.</p>
Text Size
The CSS font-size
property defines the text size for an HTML element:
Example
<h1 style="font-size:200%;">This is a heading</h1>
<p style="font-size:150%;">This is a paragraph.</p>
Text Alignment
The CSS text-align
property defines the horizontal text alignment for an HTML element:
Example
<h1 style="text-align:center;">Centered Heading</h1>
<p style="text-align:right;">Centered paragraph.</p>