Setting the element type

A specialty of HTML is to have different element types for content of a document separate from the content formatting. Element types could be paragraph, link or a certain kind of heading. One can think of element types being a way to distinguish certain structures in a document while named styles are a way to differentiate between certain formats both independent from each other.

Element types are applied to one or more paragraphs always. By default a paragraph is of element type paragraph as well.

To set another element type,

- select one or more paragraphs in the editor pane
- choose an element type from the element type combo box in the tool bar

Currently the following element types can be set

- paragraph
- heading 1
- heading 2
- heading 3
- heading 4
- heading 5
- heading 6