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160 Journalism Online
Exercise 6 – font size, colour and typefaces
The tag allows you to change the typeface, size and colour of
your text, just like the font utility in a word processor. To address
those, the tag has several additional elements or attributes.
In Notepad, load Template.htm and type the following.
The font tag
big stuff
in bright colours
can often scare. But both can be
very effective
(UK readers should note the spelling of ‘color’ in the HTML.)
Save it as HTML6.htm and view the result.
Add the following line to the code you just typed.
big stuff
Save it as HTML6a.htm and view the result.
The text should appear in the Arial typeface. Arial is a very
common font, present on most PCs. If you were to use an obscure
font for your page, it would not display on machines that do not have
that font. All the tag does is tell the receiving computer which
typeface to use. If it has not got it, it cannot show it.
One solution is to use very common fonts, but you can also use
the generic names for fonts.
Load up TEMPLATE.htm and type the following.
The font tag cont.