BASEFONT change default font size in the document 4.01 Transitional

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BASEFONT

Purpose

change default font in the document

Description

This element changes the default font size and/or color in the document. All text contained within it will be rendered according to the value of the size attribute. Note that this is an EMPTY element, so don't nest these. Note that the font face has to be installed on the user's computer in order for it to be displayed in that face.

Start tag

Required <BASEFONT>

Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Comment
color	CDATA	#IMPLIED	color code as #RRGGBB in hexadecimal or 16 named colors; text color
face	CDATA	#IMPLIED	comma-separated list of font names
id	ID	#IMPLIED	document-wide unique id
size	CDATA	#REQUIRED	base font size for FONT elements

Content

EMPTY

End tag

Forbidden

Referenced in

A ABBR ACRONYM ADDRESS APPLET B BDO BIG BLOCKQUOTE BODY BUTTON CAPTION CENTER CITE CODE DD DEL DFN DIV DT EM FIELDSET FONT FORM H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6 I INS KBD LABEL LEGEND LI NOSCRIPT OBJECT P PRE Q S SAMP SMALL SPAN STRIKE STRONG SUB SUP TD TH TT U VAR

Example

Source	Appearance
All <BASEFONT Size = "1" color="red">your <BASEFONT Size = "2" color="#27408B" face="Courier">base <BASEFONT Size = "3">fonts <BASEFONT Size = "4" color="#008080" face="Times">are <BASEFONT Size = "5">belong <BASEFONT Size = "6" color="purple" face="Muddy">to <BASEFONT Size = "7">us!	All your base fonts are belong to us!