Ever since I started using Wordpress, one thing that has baffled me is sidebar widgets. I understood the heading and the text, but I didn’t know how to style any of the text itself.

And then one day I copy pasted a recipe into the post area on another of my blogs, and when I looked at the code, I saw that around the words “Ingredients” and “Directions” were the letter “h” with tags around it. A lightbulb went on in my head, seriously. So THAT’S how you make larger text within a widget!

I still have to really look at the stylesheet to understand it for sure. Does the “h” tag use the coding for titles? On my blog Table for Five, h1 is large dark grey letters, but h2 is light purple, and I’m not sure why. But I figured it out, all by myself. Go me!

This is the h1 tag

This is the h2 tag

This is the h3 tag

This is the h4 tag