This is used to search for an installed font with the corresponding name. Allowed context Text container , i.e. any element that may contain text elements . This includes most HTML elements. In particular, text elements can be nested . Contents Text elements .
Notes Avoid using FONT, for reasons explained in the discussion of text markup in general.
The attributes in the BODY tag can be used to set the background color or the default text font color or both. Some versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape have mapped those values to physical sizes e.g. so that sizes 4 and 5, or sizes 2 and 3, are equal to each other. The trend is that browsers nowadays try to map them to all to different sizes. In character cell browsers such as Lynx , a SIZE attribute has no effect, of course. You may wish to use a separate file for checking the visual appearance of the different markup elements on your browser to see how it displays different font sizes.