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H020 Text and Formatting

Here you can work with some text and formatting.

  • Create a blank page using a standard HTML template:
    • The title should be “Tim Berners-Lee.”
    • Ensure it can be validated before proceeding!!
  • You will now create a page about Tim Berners-Lee:
    • Start with a heading (h1) with the content “Tim Berners-Lee.”
    • Create the first paragraph from Wikipedia.
    • Add a smaller heading (h2) “Background and Early Career.”
    • Add the next two paragraphs from Wikipedia.
    • In the last paragraph, ensure that “Queens College” is bold (b), “Oxford University” is italicized (i), and “M6800 processor” is underlined (u).
      • Remember, formatting on modern HTML pages is done using CSS!
    • Add a horizontal line (hr).

Remember that the page must be validatable!

It should look approximately like this:

You can see a possible solution here 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge" />
    <title>Tim Berners-Lee</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Tim Berners-Lee</h1>
    <p>Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955 in London) is regarded as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development.</p>
    <h2>Background and Early Career</h2>
    <p>
    Tim Berners-Lee was born in London as the son of Conway Berners-Lee and Mary Lee Woods. Both of his parents were mathematicians and part of the team that built the Manchester Mark II, one of the earliest computers. They taught Tim to use mathematics everywhere – even at the dinner table. Tim attended Sheen Mount Primary School before moving on to Emanuel School in Wandsworth.
    </p>
    <p>
    He graduated from <b>Queens College</b> (<i>Oxford University</i>). He built a computer using a soldering iron, TTL gates, an <u>M6800 processor</u>, and an old television. Tim and a friend were denied access to university computers after being caught hacking. He worked as a programmer for Plessey Telecommunications Limited in 1976 and for D.G. Nash Limited in 1978, where he wrote a typesetting program and an operating system.
    </p>
    <hr />
</body>
</html>