Create It ~101; Basic HTML-font size

Sizing Fonts

The default font size = 3, but you can alter it by inserting a specific numeral, such as , or even a possitive or negative value, or , for example.

<font size=> adjusts font size
</font> returns font to default size

So if you write in your HTML :

<font size=6>I am very large.</font>

You'll get:

I am very large.

Unlike the headline tags, which force headlines of different sizes onto different lines, the tags let you combine different sized words on the same line, so you can

see how this changes SIZE!

You can choose from seven font sizes:

This is .

This is .

This is .

This is .

This is .

This is .

This is .

You should note that the tag doesn't work in all browsers (Mosaic, for one, doesn't support it).

Two More Tags that Change The Size of the Text:

Big makes the text in between larger than the rest of the text; small, the opposite. These are not as versatile as the font change, but still can be used to have a nice effect. In Netscape it can be used in combination with the font tag to alter text size.

Here is an example of how these tags work:

THIS IS BIG
THIS IS NORMAL
THIS IS SMALL

Review

Font sizes range from 1-7 with size 3 being default. In Netscape you can change the default size of the text through use of the <BASEFONT SIZE=> tag in between the <HEAD> </HEAD> tag set or in the beginning of the HTML document. You can then use the numerical value to change the size from 1-7 by using the

You can also use the numerical values both positive (+1 thru +7) and negative (-1 thru -7) to increase or decrease text size in relation to the selected basefont size or in relation to the default of 3.

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