HTML Font Codes

Welcome to the introduction page to the Iron Spider series of tutorials on HTML font codes. By running through these tutorials you can expect to learn all of the following:

How to set the text color on your web pages
How to make text bigger or smaller on your web pages
How to apply various font styles (typefaces)
How to set text into bold, italics or underlined font styles
How to properly combine HTML font codes

All these tutorials are easy to understand and won't bog you down with a bunch of hifalutin jibber-jabber (promise). On this page you'll find introductory paragraphs and links to all the tutorials in this section.

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HTML Font Color Codes

You can designate the text color on your web page using the 'color' attribute in the HTML font element. There are two different methods of entering the value for the color attribute. The easiest way is to use any one of the 140 official recognized color names which make up part of the so-called X11 Color List...

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HTML Font Size Codes

You can designate the text size on your web page (or even your MySpace page) using the 'size' attribute in the HTML font element code. If no size is defined for text on a web page then the web browser will display the text at size 3...

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HTML Font Styles & Codes

You can designate what font style, a.k.a., 'typeface', a browser will use to display the text on your web page using the face attribute in the font element. Theoretically, you can use any font that you have installed on your computer (if you are using Windows, you can see which fonts you have installed on your computer by browsing through your Fonts folder which is typically located at C:\Windows\Fonts)...

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More HTML Font Styles - Bold/Italic Codes

Aside from formatting text using the font element and its attributes —face, size and color— there are a variety of other HTML font styles that you can use to format the text on your web page. These are listed in detail here along with example codes...

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Combining HTML Font Codes

The font element and all of the font style and special elements are known as inline elements. Unlike block level elements, the end tag of an inline element does not force a line break in the visible text.

Generally, inline elements may appear consecutively or may be combined so that one inline element contains one or more other inline elements...

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