Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

BASEFONT — NN n/a IE 4 DOM 1

Synopsis

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. The BASEFONT element overrides the default font settings in the browser’s user preferences settings.

Be careful with the outerText and outerHTML properties (and the undocumented innerText and innerHTML properties in the Windows version). Because this element does not have an end tag, virtually the entire document becomes part of these property values. Altering them can easily result in a lost document. All four of these properties are best utilized in elements that act as HTML containers by virtue of the position of their start and end tags.

HTML Equivalent

<BASEFONT>

Object Model Reference

IE

[window.]document.all. elementID

Properties

className	face	lang	parentElement	sourceIndex
color	id	outerHTML	parentTextEdit	tagName
document	isTextEdit	outerText	size	title

Methods

contains( )	removeAttribute( )	setAttribute( )
getAttribute( )

Collections/Arrays

all[]

children[]