Learning How to Use HTML Font Tags

Font tags are used to specify font face, color and size. The defaults for these attributes are Times New Roman, black and size 3.

With HTML, you can specify a font size in these tags from "1", the smallest, to "7", the largest.

If you're reading this, you're seeing an example of Garamond font face. Times New Roman and Garamond are both serif font faces. Arial is a very popular sans serif face, "sans" meaning without.

So, maybe you're wondering what in the world a serif is. Serifs are those little marks on the end of letters.

If you look at the top of this page at "create your market", the name of the font used is Arial. In contrast to the font face you're looking at right now, it doesn't have those serifs.

So, here's the font tag in action.

Reminder! The spaces after the first bracket of each tag are not correct HTML code. They're placed there to keep the tags from actually being read as font tags. If they were, the tags would all disappear.

< html>
< head>
< title>Font Tags< /title>
< /head>
< body>

Since we haven't used a font tag, and nothing was specified in the body tag to apply to the entire body of the page, all text would appear according to the default settings.

So, we would have Times New Roman font face, black and a size 3 font.

< font face="arial" size="5">

The text would still be black, but there would be a different font face in a larger size.

< /font>

This text would revert to Times New Roman, black font, size 3.

< font color="669999" size="4">

Now we've changed the font color and the size. The font face would be the default font face, Times New Roman.

< /font>
< /body>
< html>

The font tag can be used to set any or all of the three font attributes - face, color and size. They can be listed in any order.

Regardless of the order the attributes are listed, the tag must begin with the word "font" (omit the quotes). Otherwise, the entire tag can't be read.

Font faces, color codes or names, and sizes should be enclosed in quotes.

As with some other HTML rules, you can get away without doing it, but it's better not to take the chance of it not being read correctly by someone's browser.

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Nancy Richardson
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