<BASEFONT>

Base font definition for page

This element is used to set the base font size for a document. It doesn't affect the headings unless they've been modified by the font element using a relative font size.

        <html>
        <head>
        <title>A Page to Show Base Font useage.</title>
        </head>
<body>
            .
            .
==>> <basefont size=4>
            .
            .
        </body>
        </html>

The font size can range from 1 (the smallest) to 7 (the largest). I would be careful using this element. I did it once because I was working on a system that a high resolution monitor and I though all my text was too small to read. I modified all my pages to increase the base font size so it looked acceptable on my monitor. I was horrified when I got on a different system with a normal monitor and saw that my pages looked like the LARGE PRINT edition of the Reader's Digest!

HTML 3.2 Final

An empty element that doesn't have an end tag.

size: A required attribute with a value from 1 to 7. If nothing is specified then the browser is supposed to default to 3.

Netscape

Nothing special.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Nothing special.

Internationalization

Nothing special.

Michael T. Rusk
Comments to author: mike@ruskfamily.com

Revised: Sunday, December 30, 2007 11:06 -0500
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