September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
31h 42m
English
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The <font> Tag
The
<font>
tag is an inline style tag used to
specify the size, color, and font face for the enclosed text using
the size
,
color
, and
face
attributes,
respectively. It was created as an extension to HTML to give
designers more control over the display of text. The dark side of the
<font> tag is that it introduces very
specific display information into the HTML markup. As noted several
times in this book, in an ideal world, style would be kept separate
from content. In HTML 4.01, the <font> tag
and all its attributes have been deprecated in favor of the superior
formatting capabilities of style sheets. Despite this, it continues
to be quite popular (even the best authoring tools rely on it
heavily), so it isn’t likely to go away any time soon. That
said, let’s look at how the font tag is used.
A single <font> tag may contain all of these
attributes as shown:
<FONT FACE="sans-serif" COLOR="white" SIZE="+1">
For an explanation of acceptable values for the
color attribute, refer to Chapter 16.
Specifying Size with <font>
You can use the size attribute within the
<font> tag to adjust type size. This
attribute is supported by Versions 1.1 and higher of both Navigator
and Internet Explorer.
Browsers measure HTML type on a relative scale from 1 to 7, where 3 is the default and will be displayed at the size specified by the user’s preferences. These “virtual” sizes are relative, meaning they do not signify actual pixel or point adjustments. Each size is successively about ...
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