Style and Format

The difference between formatting and styling is confusing especially when using Joomla.

For a broad overview:

Current web standards state that content(html) must be separated  from the presentation (css)

So think of fomatting as  content: It tells the relative importance of elements. H1 is the most important.

Presentation is a style. You have default style sheet that have definitions for each html element. You can have multiple style sheets that style your pages in different ways.

How they work together in Joomla's JCEditor

Format (html) is coded to tell stylesheet how important each item is. So if you format something h1 (very important like a headline), Css knows its type size, color, etc.

So you will need to format all text you put on the site---
You have a choice of H1, H2, H3 and paragraph.  When you have determined the importance through the formatting then CSS knows what to do with them.



YOU MUST format all the content:

You may style elements.  Think of these items are in-line styles: if you want something bold, italic etc.

 But limit yourself to bold/italic/underline. You may also use unordered list for a bulleted list and ordered list for a numbered list.

(caveat: If you are using the styling menu for more than bold/italic/etc, like for example you are centering the article text, it would be cleaner and easier for your designer to write a rule in to the style sheet to have this happen automatically rather than you styling all your pages one by one. (excessive in-line styling it also junks up your html with a lot of unnecessary code and will make it run slower.)