Playing with fonts

The base font is size 3, black and times.

But, we can make the font smaller, bigger or even a different color.

In fact, we can make each character of a word d i f f e r e n t!

Some important facts

1. If the font you specify is not available, the browser picks one for you. You can specify a list of fonts in face="..." to specify alternate fonts.

2. Each browser may interpret size, color, and face differently, depending on the type and user settings!

3. Later, we will see that cascading style sheets can be used to give more specific and platform-independent control over web page appearance.

For some more information

You can go to for The Advanced HTML Resource and go to "Element Index" to find all sorts of attributes and options for the tags we talk about in class! Another site is Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi. There are many other good references. You should look at some of these and learn more about what you can do with HTML tags!