February 7, 2012 - Exercise 1 and Exercise 2 are due on February 21 - Final Projects due on May 22, 2012

Depricated HTML Formatting

The font tag

The font tag is a "depreciated" (or obsolete) tag in the HTML 4 specification, yet it is still useful especially if you think your target audience might be using an older browser that doesn't support the favored Cascading Style Sheets. Such audiences might include third world computer users or students in poor school districts that don't have modern equipment. Font tag attributes are face (or font), size (1-7, seven being largest) and color ("hex" color values or the "friendly" color names listed in the back of your book).

<font size="5" color="blue" face="Comic Sans MS, Charcoal, Verdana, Geneva" > These words are a different font face, blue and a little bigger than the surrounding text.</font>

Technically, you need a set of font tags for each paragraph. You may get away with using one set for several paragraphs; however, some elements (such as table cells) will not allow that convenience.