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  1. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"
  2.    "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">
  3. <html lang=en-us>
  4. <head>
  5. <title>BASEFONT - Base Font Change</title>
  6. <link rev=Made href="mailto:liam@htmlhelp.com">
  7. <link rel=Start href="../index.html">
  8. <link rel=Glossary href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/glossary/glossary.html">
  9. <link rel=Copyright href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/copyright.html">
  10. <link rel=StyleSheet href="../style.css" type="text/css">
  11. <link rel=StyleSheet href="../aural.css" type="text/css" media=aural>
  12. <meta name="author" content="Liam Quinn">
  13. <meta name="description" content="A description of HTML 4.0's BASEFONT element for changes to the base font.">
  14. <meta name="keywords" content="basefont element, base font change, color, colour, colors, colours, face, faces, font size, sizes, HyperText Markup Language, HTML, HTML4, HTML 4.0, Web Design Group, WDG, <basefont> tag">
  15. </head>
  16. <body>
  17. <h2><img src="../wdglogo1.gif" width=250 height=83 alt="The Web Design Group"></h2>
  18. <h1>BASEFONT - Base Font Change</h1>
  19. <table>
  20.   <tr valign=top>
  21.     <th>Syntax</th>
  22.     <td><strong class=required><BASEFONT></strong></td>
  23.   </tr>
  24.   <tr valign=top>
  25.     <th>Attribute Specifications</th>
  26.     <td>
  27.       <ul>
  28.         <li><strong class=required>SIZE=<var><a href="../values.html#cdata">CDATA</a></var> (font size adjustment)</strong></li>
  29.         <li>COLOR=<var><a href="../values.html#color">Color</a></var> (font color adjustment)</li>
  30.         <li>FACE=<var><a href="../values.html#cdata">CDATA</a></var> (font face adjustment)</li>
  31.         <li><a href="../attrs.html#id">ID</a>=<var><a href="../values.html#id">ID</a></var> (unique ID)</li>
  32.       </ul>
  33.     </td>
  34.   </tr>
  35.   <tr valign=top>
  36.     <th>Contents</th>
  37.     <td>Empty</td>
  38.   </tr>
  39.   <tr valign=top>
  40.     <th>Contained in</th>
  41.     <td><a href="../inline.html">Inline elements</a>, <a href="../block.html">block-level elements</a> except <a href="../block/pre.html">PRE</a></td>
  42.   </tr>
  43. </table>
  44. <p>The <strong class=html>BASEFONT</strong> element, <a href="../deprecated.html">deprecated</a> in HTMLá4.0 in favor of <a href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/">style sheets</a>, allows authors to suggest rudimentary <em>font changes</em>. Use of the <strong class=html>BASEFONT</strong> element brings the same usability and accessibility problems as <strong class=html><a href="font.html">FONT</a></strong>, as discussed in the article <cite><a href="http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/%7Emudws/font.html">What's Wrong With FONT?</a></cite></p>
  45. <p>Unlike <strong class=html>FONT</strong>, <strong class=html>BASEFONT</strong>'s changes affect the base font, and so apply to all content following the <strong class=html>BASEFONT</strong> element except for headings. However, most browsers fail to apply changes in the base font size and color to <strong class=html><a href="../tables/table.html">TABLE</a></strong>s.</p>
  46. <p><strong class=html>BASEFONT</strong>'s required <strong class=html>SIZE</strong> attribute specifies the font size to use on a browser-dependent scale of <strong class=html>1</strong> to <strong class=html>7</strong>, with the default being <strong class=html>3</strong>.</p>
  47. <p>The poorly supported <strong class=html>COLOR</strong> and <strong class=html>FACE</strong> attributes suggest a font color and face, respectively. <a href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/">Style sheets</a> are better supported and more flexible than <strong class=html>BASEFONT</strong>'s <strong class=html>COLOR</strong> and <strong class=html>FACE</strong> attributes.</p>
  48. <h2>More Information</h2>
  49. <ul>
  50.   <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/graphics.html#edef-BASEFONT">BASEFONT in <abbr class=initialism title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> HTMLá4.0 Recommendation</a></li>
  51.   <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#basefont">BASEFONT in <abbr class=initialism title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> HTMLá3.2 Recommendation</a></li>
  52.   <li><a href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/special/basefont.html">BASEFONT in <abbr class=initialism title="Web Design Group">WDG</abbr> HTMLá3.2 Reference</a></li>
  53.   <li><a href="http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/HTML3.2/5.8.html">BASEFONT in <cite>Learning HTMLá3.2 by Examples</cite></a></li>
  54. </ul>
  55. <div class=footer>
  56. <address>Maintained by <a href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/">Liam Quinn</a> <<a href="mailto:liam@htmlhelp.com">liam@htmlhelp.com</a>></address>
  57. <p class=toolbar><a href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/"><img src="../wdglogo-small.gif" width=105 height=40 alt="Web Design Group ~"></a> <a href="../index.html" rel=Start>HTMLá4.0áReference</a>á~ <a href="../olist.html">ElementsábyáFunction</a>á~ <a href="../alist.html">ElementsáAlphabetically</a></p>
  58. <p class=copyright><a href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/copyright.html">Copyright ⌐</a> 1998 Liam Quinn. All rights reserved.</p>
  59. </div>
  60. </body>
  61. </html>
  62.