Examples of the inline style

This is a normal paragraph. Since no inline style is specified, the browser defaults are used to format it

The following paragraph uses
<p style = "font-style: italic; background-color: blue; color: yellow"> ... </p>

This paragraph overrides the default style for paragraphs by specifying that the background color should be blue, the text color should be yellow and that the text should be italic.

The following paragraph uses
<p style = "font-size: large; color: green"> ... </p>

This paragraph overrides the default style for paragraphs by specifying that the font size should be large and that the color should be green.

The following paragraph uses
<p style = "font-size: x-large; color: blue"> ... </p>

Inline styles should be used sparingly in very special cases, if at all, since they defeat the purpose of style sheets: the separation of document structure and formatting