FONT set font face and size of text XHTML 1.0 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 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