HTML <font>
Published Jun 18, 2022Updated Jul 31, 2023
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The <font> element was used to set the font characteristics of a text.
Note This is now deprecated. CSS properties like the
fontproperty should be used instead.
Syntax
At least one of the following three attributes is required for the <font> element. However, any combination of them can be used:
color: What color the font/text should be. The color can be set to a namedcolor, hexadecimal or RGB.face: What font the text should be. For example, to have the text beverdana, thefaceattribute would be set toface="verdana".size: Sets the size of the font/text. It can use absolute units and relative units ranging from 1-7. Absolute units are used bysize="5"or any other number 1-7. Relative units are relative the size of the<basefont>element which is also deprecated. The attribute would look something like thissize="+5".
Example
<font color="pink">This text is pink</font><font size="5">This size is 5</font><font face="verdana">This text is in verdana font</font>

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