Name
basefont
Synopsis
<basefont />
Deprecated. Specifies certain font
attributes for the content that follows it. It can be used within the
head
element to apply to the entire
document or within the body
of the
document to apply to the subsequent text. This element is discouraged
from use in favor of Cascading Style Sheets.
Attributes
-
id="
text
"
This attribute assigns a name to an element. This name must be unique in a document.
color="
#rrggbb
"
or"
color name
"
Deprecated. Sets the color of the following text using hexadecimal RGB values.
face="
typeface
"
(orlist of typefaces
)Deprecated. Sets the font for the following text.
-
size="
number
"
Deprecated. Sets the base font size using the HTML size values from 1 to 7 (or relative values based on the default value of 3). Subsequent relative size settings are based on this value.
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