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<title>BASEFONT - Base Font Change</title>
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<h1>BASEFONT - Base Font Change</h1>
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<th>Syntax</th>
<td><strong class=required><BASEFONT></strong></td>
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<li><strong class=required>SIZE=<var><a href="../values.html#cdata">CDATA</a></var> (font size adjustment)</strong></li>
<li>COLOR=<var><a href="../values.html#color">Color</a></var> (font color adjustment)</li>
<li>FACE=<var><a href="../values.html#cdata">CDATA</a></var> (font face adjustment)</li>
<li><a href="../attrs.html#id">ID</a>=<var><a href="../values.html#id">ID</a></var> (unique ID)</li>
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<p>The <strong class=html>BASEFONT</strong> element, <a href="../deprecated.html">deprecated</a> in HTML4.0 in favor of <a href="../../css/index.html">style sheets</a>, allows authors to suggest rudimentary <em>font changes</em>. Use of the <strong class=html>BASEFONT</strong> element brings the same usability and accessibility problems as <strong class=html><a href="font.html">FONT</a></strong>, as discussed in the article <cite><a href="http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/%7Emudws/font.html">What's Wrong With FONT?</a></cite></p>
<p>Unlike <strong class=html>FONT</strong>, <strong class=html>BASEFONT</strong>'s changes affect the base font, and so apply to all content following the <strong class=html>BASEFONT</strong> element except for headings. However, most browsers fail to apply changes in the base font size and color to <strong class=html><a href="../tables/table.html">TABLE</a></strong>s.</p>
<p><strong class=html>BASEFONT</strong>'s required <strong class=html>SIZE</strong> attribute specifies the font size to use on a browser-dependent scale of <strong class=html>1</strong> to <strong class=html>7</strong>, with the default being <strong class=html>3</strong>.</p>
<p>The poorly supported <strong class=html>COLOR</strong> and <strong class=html>FACE</strong> attributes suggest a font color and face, respectively. <a href="../../css/index.html">Style sheets</a> are better supported and more flexible than <strong class=html>BASEFONT</strong>'s <strong class=html>COLOR</strong> and <strong class=html>FACE</strong> attributes.</p>
<h2>More Information</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/graphics.html#edef-BASEFONT">BASEFONT in <abbr class=initialism title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> HTML4.0 Recommendation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#basefont">BASEFONT in <abbr class=initialism title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> HTML3.2 Recommendation</a></li>
<li><a href="../../wilbur/special/basefont.html">BASEFONT in <abbr class=initialism title="Web Design Group">WDG</abbr> HTML3.2 Reference</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.malibutelecom.com/yucca/HTML3.2/5.8.html">BASEFONT in <cite>Learning HTML3.2 by Examples</cite></a></li>
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