Entirely New Netscape Tags


The NOBR element stands for NO BReak. This means all the text between the start and end of the NOBR tags cannot have line breaks inserted between them. While NOBR is essential for those odd character sequences you really don't want broken, be careful, as long text strings inside of NOBR elements can look odd.


The WBR element stands for Word BReak. This is for the very rare case when you have a NOBR section and you know exactly where you want it to break, or any time you want to give Netscape help by telling it where a word is allowed to be broken. The WBR element does not force a line break (BR does that) it simply lets Netscape know where a line break is allowed to be inserted if needed.


You can now change the FONT size. Valid values range from 1-7. The default FONT size is 3. The value given to size can optionally have a '+' or '-' character in front of it to specify that it is relative the document baseFONT. The default baseFONT is 3, and can be changed with the BASEFONT element.

<BASEFONT SIZE=value>
This changes the size of the BASEFONT that all relative FONT changes are based on. It defaults to 3, and has a valid range of 1-7.

<CENTER>
You can now center your text. All lines of text between the begin and end of CENTER are centered between the current left and right margins. A new tag has been introduced rather than using the proposed  because using this would break many

existing browsers when the  tag is used as a container. The new tag is also less general and does not support all cases where you want to center the text.

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