The font tag has become a distant memory in the web design world. Once the only way you could control a webpage's font face, size and color, it has been replaced with Cascade Style Sheets which makes changing fonts a much easier task. CSS also eliminates the choppiness you got with the larger sizes of a font tag.

Each browser comes with a standard font size, and with a specific font and font size. If a web designer doesn't include the CSS or font tag into their work, their browser's defaults will take over. This could make the text appear larger than it did on your screen, or smaller depending on the browser, the display settings.

The structure of the font tag is as follows:

While we won't use this tag in this class, it is important you know what it is. Reason being is if you are taking the class to get ahead at work, and then are assigned a page to fix/update built by someone else, you will understand what is going on in the page. Also, if a font tag is in any section of a web page it will overide the CSS tags.