size (HTML attribute)
| Depr. | Version |
|---|---|
| Yes | HTML 4 |
| IE5.5+ | FF2 | SA4 | OP10 | CH2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full | None | None | None | None |
Syntax
size="number (1-7)"
Description
The
size attribute for basefont is
supposed to affect the base size of text for the
document.
Example
The size
attribute is shown below:
<head> ⋮ <basefont size="7"/> </head>
Value
A number between 1 to 7 (1 = smallest, 7 = largest). Browser default value is 3.
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 |
Support for this is
almost zero in current browsers. It is included here for reference only,
but it has almost no use in modern browsers. The solution is to use CSS
instead to set a value for the font-size property
on the body element.
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