Fonts In HTML

The HTML element FONT is an inline element used to change 3 things:

1.font sizes

2.font colors

3.font styles

But it is deprecated in HTML  in favour of cascading style sheets.

The reason for this is simple: CSS  gives us much more flexibility and many more styling options than the FONT element.

General Syntax

Since <font> tag is uded to change only size,color and style , it has 3 attributes : “face”,”size” and “color”.

Font Face

1. By default browsers use “Times New Roman” as their default font.
2. But if needed we can change it to any other font by using “face” attribute of the <font> tag.
3. As value for the FACE attribute we can use any specific font name such as "verdana", "arial", "georgia", "bookman old style", "comic sans ms" and many more.
4. Alternatively  may use generic font styles such as "serif", "sans-serif", "cursive", "fantasy" and "monospace".

The above example instructs the browser to display the contained text in arial or helvetica or verdana. If none of them is present then in any “sans-serif” font .