Name

<BASEFONT> — NN all IE all HTML 3.2

Synopsis

<BASEFONT>

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A BASEFONT element advises the browser of some font information to be used as the basis for text rendering of the current page below the BASEFONT element. You can apply this element in either the HEAD or BODY portion of the document (although Microsoft recommends in the BODY only for IE 4), and you can insert BASEFONT elements as often as is needed to set the base font for a portion of the document. Be aware that settings of the BASEFONT element do not necessarily apply to content in tables. If you want table content to resemble a custom BASEFONT setting, you likely have to set the font styles to table elements separately.

The BASEFONT element overrides the default font settings in the browser’s user preferences settings. Like most font-related elements, the BASEFONT element is deprecated in HTML 4.0 in favor of style sheets. The latter provide much greater control over fonts (see Chapter 10).

Example

<BASEFONT FACE="Times, serif" SIZE=4>

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