How to add a base font in a HTML page?

The HTML <basefont> tag specifies the standard font-family, font-size, and colour for the text in the HTML document. It is advised that you format the text in the document using CSS attributes like font, font-family, font-size, and colour since this tag was deleted in HTML5.

Note − Not supported in HTML5

Syntax

<basefont color=”..” size=".." face="..">

Following are the examples…

Example: Instead using CSS (basefont is not supported by html5)

In the following example we are using css style to allow basefont as it was alternative of it.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <style>
      body {
         text-align: center;
      }
      .varma {
         color: green;
         font-size: 45px;
         font-family: sans-serif;
      }
      .varma1 {
         font-family: arial;
      }
   </style>
</head>
<body>
   <div class="varma">TUTORIALSPOINT</div>
   <div class="varma1">
      A Learning portal for Everyone.
      It contains well written,<br>well thought
      and well explained computer science and
      programming articles.
   </div>
</body>
</html>

Output

When the script gets executed, it will display text according to the font style which we mentioned inside the <style> tag of the above script.

Updated on: 05-Sep-2022

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