This parameter controls the weight or boldness of the font. We can make the font look lighter or bolder using style sheet.
It takes the following values.
a) bold : It makes the font to look bold.
b) bolder : It makes the font to look bolder.
c) light : It makes the font to look light.
d) lighter : It makes the font to look lighter.
e) 100 to 900 : The fonts boldness can be set using values as 100 or 200 or 300 or 400 or 500 or 600 or 700 or 800 or 900.
f) normal : It sets the fonts as normal fonts.
Example 1:
<div style="font-weight: bold;">testing font weight </div>
Result:
testing font weight
Example 2:
<div style="font-weight: bolder;">testing font weight </div>
Result:
testing font weight
Example 3:
<div style="font-weight: light;">testing font weight </div>
Result:
testing font weight
Example 4:
<div style="font-weight: lighter;">testing font weight </div>
Result:
testing font weight
Example 5:
<div style="font-weight: 800;">testing font weight </div>
Result:
testing font weight
Example 6:
<div style="font-weight: normal;">testing font boldness </div>
Result:
testing font boldness
A Note
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets can be used along with html tags as explained in this site.
This simple CSS will help you to create much elegant and neat html web pages.
This does not need any additional softwares or codings.
All web browser are capable of handing CSS codes.
Note 2: If required you can using <span> instead of <div> tags.
div tag will start and end on new lines. span will not exceed the tag area.