This setting does not effect every text of the document. For example, text inside a table is not affected, and always displayed with the standard font. If you want to set the font for every text-element you can do this by using style sheets.
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Change the appearance of the default font that is used to draw the text. This
tag must be specified inside the HEAD section of
the document.
This setting does not effect every text of the document. For example, text inside a table is not affected, and always displayed with the standard font. If you want to set the font for every text-element you can do this by using style sheets. |
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| COLOR
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Set the default color of the text in the document.
See the page Using colors for a description on specifying colors. |
| FACE
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Set the default font of the document. You can use the same syntax as with the
FACE attribute of the FONT tag. You can supply more than one name, delimited by a comma. The browser will use the first font of the list which is available. So when the following statement <BASEONT FACE="Cotton,Arial"> is rendered by the browser and the font Cotton is installed then this font will be used. If this font is not installed then Arial is searched. If none of the supplied fonts are available then the browser will use a default font. |
| SIZE
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Set the default size of the text in the document. The valid range is 1 - 7. The
default is 3.
When using the FONT tag to change the size with a relative value,
eg |
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| Source: | To see the BASEFONT tag in action <A HREF=BASEFONT1.html>view this example</A>. |
| Result: | To see the BASEFONT tag in action view this example. |
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