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Usage Recommendation
This effect is done better with styles. See Break the <FONT> Habit

SIZE: size of the font
COLOR: color of the text
FACE: set the typestyle for text

POINT-SIZE
WEIGHT

 is the addictive drug of HTML. When you start using  you're likely to think it's the coolest HTML tag ever created. You can set the sizes, faces and colors of the fonts on your web page, all with understandable  tags.

Then, when you've loaded your web pages with a billion  tags, you find out the ugly side of . You have to use it over and over to give your page the appearance you want. It doesn't work in tables unless you put  in every cell. If you want to change the appearance of the fonts in your page you have to change every single  tag.  has taken over your code.

Break the `` Habit

 seems easy at first but in the long run your life will be much simpler if you use styles. Admittedly, styles require a little extra learning when you first start using them, but only a little. Once you get the hang of them you'll find styles much, much simpler to handle than mountains of  tags. See Break the Habit to get started.

Historical Information

For the sake of completion and historical accuracy we'll look at how  works. Please don't take the inclusion of this information as an endorsement that you should actually use .

As its name implies,  sets the font properties of the text it contains. To have any effect,  must be used with at least one of its attributes. For example, this text sets the font to a size 7:

this code produces this

Hi There
Hi There

`<FONT ...>`

Break the `<FONT ...>` Habit

Historical Information

<FONT ...>

Break the <FONT ...> Habit

Historical Information

`<FONT ...>`

Break the `<FONT ...>` Habit