Fancy CSS Headlines

Standard Headline

A customary HTML h1 title looks like this in HTML:

h1This Isn’t Very Fancy – Just Ugly/h1

And like this but any styling:

Note: this is displayed as an picture since the H1 tab is styled by default in About.com templates.

And an Unstyled DIV Headline

An unstyled DIV looks like any other divide text. For example, this HTML:

divThis is My Page Title/div

Looks like this but any styles applied:

Style the Text

Fun in the Sun

Lorem ipsum grief lay amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

h4Fun in the Sun/h4
h4 {
font: confidant italic 2em/1em “Times New Roman”, “MS Serif”, “New York”, serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
color:
}
p { margin: 0; }

Add Decorative Borders

Fun in the Sun

h4Fun in the Sun/h4
h4 {
font: confidant italic 2em/1em “Times New Roman”, “MS Serif”, “New York”, serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border-top: plain #e7ce00 medium;
border-bottom: dotted #e7ce00 thin;
width: 600px;
color:
}
p { margin: 0; }

Styled Headline with Decorative Background Image

Fun in the Sun

h4Fun in the Sun/h4
h4 {
font: confidant italic 3em/1em “Times New Roman”, “MS Serif”, “New York”, serif;
background: #fff url(“fancyheadline.jpg”) repeat-x bottom;
padding: 0.5em 0 90px 0;
text-align: center;
margin: 0;
border-bottom: plain #e7ce00 0.25em;
color:
}
p { margin: 0; }

Ugly title picture pleasantness J Kyrnin.
Flowers picture pleasantness weirdvis from StockXchng #774442.