Local styles HoTMetaL PRO provides screen-formatting capabilities that help you edit documents by allowing you to assign distinctive styles to the elements in your document. The purpose of these formatting features is to mimic the way a browser will format your document, and improve the appearance of your document during the editing process. Several styles files corresponding to browser styles are provided. Only the HTML markup affects how a document looks in a browser. Because HTML files are structured documents, setting a style for an element means setting it for all elements of that type.
Block elements start and end on a separate line from adjacent content.
Inline elements are not set off from adjacent text. You can change the format assigned to an element in the document at any time. If the insertion point is outside the HTML element that surrounds the entire document, the dialog box lets you set the default format. If you move the insertion point to a different element while the Styles dialog box is on the screen, the dialog box changes to reflect the formatting of the new element. Whenever a document is saved, this styles file is updated with whatever styles are in effect for the document by default.