One of the more fixable text-formatting tags is the FONT tag. A number of parameters can be supplied to change the look of the text. The most commonly used parameters are listed below

Parameter Name	Description
COLOR	Specifies the color in which the text shold be displayed
FACE	Specifies the font name to use
SIZE	Specifies the relative size to use for the text

The FACE parameter can list multiple fonts, separated by commas. If you are using a font specific to a particular machine, be sure you specify a similar font as the second font in the tag. For instance Tahoma is a font normally available with windows. However, Tahoma is not normally available on other platforms. A good use of the FACE parameter follows:

<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica">

if the Tahoma font is not available, the browser looks for Arial. If Arial isn't available, it looks for Helvetice. If Helvetica is also missing, the browser reverts to the default font for the browser

the SIZE parameter does not allow exact pixel or point size ; rather, it uses relative values. You can specify values using two different methods. The first uses an absolute value of 1 trough 7 as follows:

<font face="Arial" size=3>

You can also specify a change in font size using values -4, -3 -2, -1, +1, +2 and +3.

<-- Back to CODE Tag -- Next to Miscellaneous Formatting Tags -->