FONT set font face and size of text XHTML 1.0 Transitional

font

Purpose

set font face, color, and size of text

Description

This element encloses text whose appearance is modified by the size and color attributes.

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	NMTOKEN	#IMPLIED	language code (backwards compatible); language code as RFC3066
size	CDATA	#IMPLIED	[+\|-]nn e.g. size="+1", size="4"
style	CDATA	#IMPLIED	associated style info; style sheet data
title	CDATA	#IMPLIED	advisory title; text used for titles
xml:lang	NMTOKEN	#IMPLIED	language code (as per XML 1.0 spec); language code as RFC3066

( #PCDATA | a | br | span | bdo | object | applet | img | map | iframe | tt | i | b | u | s | strike | big | small | font | basefont | em | strong | dfn | code | q | samp | kbd | var | cite | abbr | acronym | sub | sup | input | select | textarea | label | button | ins | del | script )*

End tag

Required </font>

Referenced in

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