face (HTML attribute)
| Depr. | Version |
|---|---|
| Yes | HTML 4 |
| IE5.5+ | FF2 | SA4 | OP10 | CH2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full | None | None | None | None |
Syntax
face="comma-separated list of font-families"
Description
The
face attribute allows the author to define one or
more different fonts to be displayed (the browser will display the first
font specified, but if that is not present on the computer, the browser
will try the next one in the list and so on).
Example
<basefont size="2" face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">
Value
This attribute takes as its value a list of fonts, separated by commas.
Compatibility
| Internet Explorer | Firefox | Safari | Opera | Chrome | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 9.2 | 9.5 | 10.0 | 2.0 |
| Full | Full | Full | Full | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
This attribute is only supported by Internet Explorer. The attribute—and the element itself (which is deprecated)—shouldn’t be used at all.
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