Name

basefont — <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 stylesheets that offer much better control over fonts.

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" (or list 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.

Example

<head>
    <basefont  face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" />
</head>

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