<basefont>
element?The <basefont>
element was used in
This tag was depreciated in HTML5 due to the availability of font-family
, font
, font-size
, and font-color
.
The <basefont>
element is not supported by any browser’s latest version except Internet Explorer (Trident Engine).
<basefont>
propertiesIn HTML <basefont>
does not require any closing tags.
In XHTML
closing tags are required.
It should be included in the <head>
section between the opening and closing tags, i.e., <head> .. </head>
.
<basefont color="#FF4433" face="Times New Roman" size="+3" />
color
: Accepts color code in hexadecimal format.
face
: This attribute contains font-family. We can also pass multiple font families; the default will be the first one.
size
: This attribute should be a numeric value between one to seven; the default size will be +3.
In CSS,
font-family
helps show font in different styles and shapes. Some renowned ones are Arial, Times New Roman, Georgia, Serif, and Helvetica.
The example below should generate font-color
#FF4433
and use font-family
Times New Roman
with size +3
on line 4
. But <basefont>
does not support HTML5
which is why the font is simple in the code output above.
<basefont>
In the example below, we use <style> ... </style>
tags in <head>
section to include CSS in the HTML file.
Then, we try to change the font color, size, and font face. We apply CSS on <h1>
and <p>
tags with different attribute values.