FONT set font face and size of text 4.01 Transitional

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FONT

Purpose

set font face, color, and size of text

Description

This element encloses text whose appearance is modified by the face, size, and color attributes. 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 <FONT>

Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Comment
class	CDATA	#IMPLIED	space-separated list of classes
color	CDATA	#IMPLIED	color code as #RRGGBB in hexadecimal or 16 named colors; text color
dir	( ltr \| rtl )	#IMPLIED	direction for weak/neutral text
face	CDATA	#IMPLIED	comma-separated list of font names
id	ID	#IMPLIED	document-wide unique id
lang	NAME	#IMPLIED	language code as RFC1766
size	CDATA	#IMPLIED	[+\|-]nn e.g. size="+1", size="4"
style	CDATA	#IMPLIED	style sheet data; associated style info
title	CDATA	#IMPLIED	text; advisory title

Content

( #PCDATA | TT | I | B | U | S | STRIKE | BIG | SMALL | EM | STRONG | DFN | CODE | SAMP | KBD | VAR | CITE | ABBR | ACRONYM | A | IMG | APPLET | OBJECT | FONT | BASEFONT | BR | SCRIPT | MAP | Q | SUB | SUP | SPAN | BDO | INPUT | SELECT | TEXTAREA | LABEL | BUTTON )*

End tag

Required </FONT>

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
<FONT Size="1">one fish</FONT> <FONT Size="2">two fish</FONT> <FONT Color="red" Size="+3">red fish</FONT> <FONT Color="blue" Size="+1">blue fish</FONT> <FONT Color="green" Size="+5" Face="Courier">The Sea</FONT> <FONT Color="purple" Size="+5" Face="Muddy">Monster</FONT>	one fish two fish red fish blue fish The Sea Monster