Sets the font value that is used as the default font when rendering text.
<BASEFONT
CLASS=Style Sheet class name
COLOR=color value
FACE=font
ID=value
LANG=language
SIZE=n
>
Parameter |
Description |
CLASS |
Class of the tag being defined. This is used to associate a subclassed style sheet with the tag. |
COLOR |
Color to be used by the font or horizontal rule. Colours can either be set by using one of the reserved colour names, or as a hex rrggbb triplet value. This attribute is not supported by Netscape 4.0. |
FACE |
Current font typeface.This attribute allows changing of the face of the HTML document BASEFONT, exactly as it works for <FONT FACE= ...>. This attribute is not supported by Netscape 4.0. |
ID |
SGML identifier used as the target for hypertext links or for naming particular elements in associated style sheets. Valid ID values must begin with a letter. The underscore character, "_", may be used in the ID name. The ID should be unique throughout the scope of the document. If more than one object with the same identifier exists in a document, a collection of those named items is created that can only be referenced by ordinal position. |
LANG |
Specifies which language to use in ISO standard language abbreviation form. |
SIZE |
Font size between 1 and 7 (7 is largest). |
<BASEFONT SIZE=3>
The code is rendered as: This sets the base font size to 3.
<FONT SIZE=+2>
The code is rendered as: Now the font size is 7.
This is an empty element and does not require a closing tag. This element may be used within the BODY tag or the HEAD tag. BASEFONT should appear before any displayed text in the BODY of the document.