When writing for the World Wide Web, an author need not be concerned with this arcana of the typographer's art. For some, this lack of control over the presentation of the text will be an insurmountable obstacle. For many others, the limitations of WWW formatting will be overridden by the advantages of the hypertext links to other networked information sources. As discussed earlier, logical text elements in HTML include paragraphs, headings, and lists. The way in which these structures are presented to the reader is determined by the particular browser being used by the reader.
Some browsers allow the user to assign a typeface and point size to different logical elements.
Some browsers allow the user to control the color of different text elements and to set the amount of white space surrounding a heading. These are merely ways of breaking the monotony of continuous text. The author of a hypertext document has few options when designing a document for clarity of presentation on the screen. Despite these limitations, creative use of HTML can resolve many complex formatting tasks. In addition, complex graphics images can be constructed that attract and delight the reader, as is demonstrated by the home page of the North Carolina State University Libraries .