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HTML Pocket Reference
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HTML Pocket Reference

by Jennifer Niederst Robbins
December 1999
Intermediate to advanced
95 pages
2h 34m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

<basefont> — NN: 2, 3, 4 &bull; MSIE: 2, 3, 4, 5 &bull; HTML 4D &bull; WebTV &bull; Opera3

Synopsis

<basefont>

Specifies certain font attributes for text following the tag. It can be used within the <head> tags to apply to the entire document, or within the body of the document to apply to the subsequent text. This tag is not part of the HTML standard; Cascading Style Sheets are the preferred method to achieve the functionality of <basefont>.

Attributes

color=#rrggbb or name

Internet Explorer 3.0+ only. Sets the color of the following text using hexadecimal RGB values.

face=font

Internet Explorer 3.0+ only. Sets the font for the following text.

size=1|2|3|4|5|6|7|+1|+2|+3|+4|-1|-2

Sets the basefont size using the HTML size values from 1 to 7 (or relative values based on the default value of 3). Subsequent relative size settings will be based on this value.

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