HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
<font>
Function
Sets the font size for text
Attributes
class
,
color
,
dir
,
face
,
id
,
lang
,
size
,
style
,
title
End tag
</font>
; never omitted
Contains
text
Used in
text
To control the color of text for the entire document, see the attributes for
4.10.3.1. The size attribute
The value of the
size
attribute must be one of the virtual font sizes (17)
described earlier, defined as an absolute size for the enclosed text or
preceded by a plus or minus sign (+ or -) to define a relative font size
that the browser adds to or subtracts from the base font size (see sec-
tion
4.10.2
). The browsers automatically round the size to 1 or 7 if the
calculated value exceeds either boundary.
