Once you are finished inserting all the bullets, or other characters, you want to insert, click the Close button to close the Symbol dialog box. The bullet is still selected in the grid of symbols on the dialog box. Once you type some more text and want to insert another bullet, click on the Symbol dialog box to give it focus and click the Insert button again. This is handy if you want to insert several symbols within one block of text. The Symbol dialog box is a non-modal dialog box, and therefore, you can interact with your Word document while the dialog box is still open and then click on the Symbol dialog box to go back to it. A modal dialog box is one that requires you to interact with it and close it before you can interact with the main parent program again. There are two types of dialog boxes, modal and non-modal. Click the Insert button to insert the character. Click the bullet character in the grid of symbols on the Symbol dialog box. We found a bullet we wanted to use in the General Punctuation Subset. You can use the Subset drop-down list to display specific types of symbols. Locate the bullet character you want to insert. NOTE: If you are using Word 2003, select Symbol from the Insert menu to access the Symbols palette. If the bullet symbol you want to insert is not available on the palette, click More Symbols. If the bullet you want to insert displays in the palette, click the bullet character to insert it.
Using the code above, if you want to apply this border style to an HTML paragraph, you can type something similar to the example below.Click the Symbol button in the Symbols group. For example, with the CSS code below, a new class named "borderexample" is created that can be applied to any other HTML tag. Then, you can link to this file from any HTML document, and elements in that document have access to the CSS styles. Or, you can define the CSS in an external file, with the. Inline CSS is defined in your HTML document, in the element. The appearance of elements on a web page may also be defined with inline CSS.
This line is actually a border, which is achieved with the CSS code border-bottom: 1px solid #93B0D2. For example, with the heading of this page, we have a grey underline.
In the example above, the color code #FF0000 is used, which is the color code for red.Ī border can also be applied to only one side. The border color defines the color you want to use for the border. Other types of border styles include dotted, dashed, double, groove, ridge, inset, and outset. The style of the border is how the border appears on the screen. In the code above, the style is defining the border size ("px" short for pixel), style type, and border color. First example with text surrounded by a red border.This example also has multiple lines. To create the example above, the code below is used.
In the example below, we have surrounded a paragraph ( ) with a red border.įirst example with text surrounded by a red border. A border in your HTML pages helps bring attention to a section of text or surround any other HTML element.Īs shown below, a border can be created around any text using HTML and CSS on your web page. Using borders, you can add a box around text, and set or change the border to nearly any color.