<font>...</font><font>...</font>The FONT element changes properties of a block of text.
Valid values range from 1 through 7, and the default size is 3. The value given to size can optionally have a '+' or '-' character in front of it to specify that it is relative the the document base font size. The default base font size is 3, and can be changed with the <basefont> element.
The fgcolor attribute (which may also be specified as text) is used to specify the text color. The statement takes the following form:
<font fgcolor="#rrggbb">
Where '#rrggbb' is a red-green-blue triplet used to specify the text color. Note that these values are in hexadecimal.
The bgcolor attribute is used to specify the background color for a block of text. The statement takes the following form:
<font bgcolor="#rrggbb">
Where '#rrggbb' is a red-green-blue triplet used to specify the text color. Note that these values are in hexadecimal.
The following text shows changing the font size:
<font size=6> changes the font size to 6.</font>
<font size=+2> changes the font size to the basefont size + 2.</font>
The following text shows changing the font foreground color to dark blue and the background to white:
This text is <font fgcolor=#000080 bgcolor=#ffffff>blue</font>.
The following text shows changing the font foreground color to dark green while making the text slightly smaller:
This text is <font size=-1 fgcolor=#008000>green</font>.