|
HTML Codes
HTML Codes
>
Fonts
<FONT ...>
-
SIZE
: size of the font
-
COLOR
: color of the text
-
FACE
: set the typestyle for text
|
|
|
<FONT ...>
is the addictive drug of HTML. When you start using
<FONT ...>
you're likely to think it's the coolest HTML tag ever created. You can set the sizes, faces and colors of the fonts on your web page, all with understandable
<FONT ...>
tags.
Then, when you've loaded your web pages with a billion
<FONT ...>
tags, you find out the ugly side of
<FONT ...>
. You have to use it over and over to give your page the appearance you want. It doesn't work in
tables unless you put
<FONT ...>
in every cell. If you want to change the appearance of the fonts in your page you have to change every single
<FONT ...>
tag.
<FONT ...>
has taken over your code.
Break the
<FONT ...>
Habit
<FONT ...>
seems easy at first but in the long run your life will be much simpler if you use styles. Admittedly, styles require a little extra learning when you first start using them, but only a little. Once you get the hang of them you'll find styles much, much simpler to handle than mountains of
<FONT ...>
tags. See
Break the <FONT> Habit
to get started.
Historical Information
For the sake of completion and historical accuracy we'll look at how
<FONT ...>
works. Please don't take the inclusion of this information as an endorsement that you should actually use
<FONT ...>
.
As its name implies,
<FONT ...>
sets the font properties of the text it contains. To have any effect,
<FONT ...>
must be used with at least one of its attributes. For example, this text sets the font to a size 7:
|
this code
|
produces this
|
<FONT SIZE=7>Hi there</FONT>
|
Hi there
|
|
