Working with Text in Java

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To change the color of a specific block of text, follow these steps:

1 Select the text by clicking and dragging until all the text you want changed is highlighted Basics for Contributors 2 Click the Text Color button in the Browser s Text toolbar The Text Color button is the one on the second row, toward the right, with a capital A on it When you click it, the color picker pops up 3 Click a cube of color with the eyedropper to make the selected text that color For details on how to use the color picker s advanced features, see the section on adding color in Book III, 3

When you change the text background color, you re changing just that: the background of each chunk of text, be it letters or numbers To change the text background color of some text, follow these simple steps: 1 Select the text by clicking and dragging until all the text you want changed is highlighted 2 Click the Highlight Color button in the Browser s Text toolbar, as shown in Figure 2-6

The Highlight Color button is the one with the highlighter marker; it s just to the right of the Text Color button When you click the Highlight Color button, the color picker pops up 3 Click a cube of color with the eyedropper to make the background of selected text that color For details on how to use the advanced features of the color picker, see the section on adding color in Book III, 3

You can create a numbered list the fancy way, with complicated tables and such, or you can do it the easy way, using the numbered list convention built into HTML Contribute makes the easy way even easier To create a numbered list, just follow these steps: 1 Click the Numbered List button in the Browser s toolbar, as shown in Figure 2-7 The indented number 1 appears, followed by a period, a space, and a blinking cursor

2 Type the first item in your numbered list Press Enter when you re finished The number 2 automatically appears on the next line, followed by a period, a space, and a blinking cursor 3 Type the second item in your numbered list, press Enter, and continue to enter items until you have completed your list Leave the extra number for which you don t have an item 4 Click the Numbered List button to deactivate the numbering The last (extra) number disappears, and the cursor goes to its nonindented position below the list

HTML has a specification for bulleted lists, just as it does for numbered lists Contribute knows the specification so you don t have to To create a bulleted list, simply follow these steps: 1 Click the Bulleted List button in the Browser s toolbar An indented bullet appears, followed by a little space and a blinking cursor 2 Type the first bullet item and press the Enter key A bullet appears on the next line, followed by a little space and a blinking cursor 3 Type the second bullet item, press the Enter key, and repeat the process until you have completed your list An extra bullet remains temporarily at the bottom of your list 4 Click the Bulleted List button to deactivate the bulleting The last (extra) bullet disappears, and the cursor goes to its nonindented position below the list

You might use tables on a Web page in two basic ways: To display tabular information, such as a spreadsheet To control page layout No matter which function you want the table to have, you can add, modify, and delete the table using the same simple methods Tables are made up of