Name
basefont
Synopsis
<basefont>
This element is deprecated.
Attributes
id="
text
"
|
Deprecated attributes
color=" #RRGGBB " or " color name " |
face=" typeface " (or list of
typefaces ) |
size="
value
"
|
The font
element adds no
semantic value to a document and mixes presentation instructions in
with the document structure. Furthermore, it makes updating a site
more labor intensive, because each and every font
element needs to be hunted down and
changed, unlike style sheets that enable elements throughout a site
to be reformatted with one simple edit.
The font
element has three
attributes, all of which have been deprecated as well:
-
color
Specifies the color of the text using a hexadecimal RGB value or color name.
-
face
Specifies a font or list of fonts (separated by commas) to be used to display the element.
-
size
Specifies the size for the font. The default text size is represented by the value “3.” Values may be provided as numbers (1 through 7) or as values relative to 3 (for example, the value -1 is the same as the value 2, the value +3 is the same as 6).
A single font
element may
contain all of these attributes as shown:
<font face="sans-serif" size="+1" color="white"><em>...</em></font>
All of the functionality of the font
element has been replaced by style
sheet properties. The font
element in the example could be handled with these style
properties:
em {font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 120%; color: white; }
For more information on using style sheets to control the presentation of fonts, see ...
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