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BASEFONT Element | baseFont Object

Sets a base font value to be used as the default font when rendering text.

Members Table

AttributePropertyDescription
canHaveHTML Sets or retrieves the value indicating whether the object can contain rich HTML markup.
COLORcolor Sets or retrieves the color to be used by the object.
disabled Sets or retrieves the value that indicates whether the user can interact with the object.
FACEface Sets or retrieves the current typeface family.
firstChild Retrieves a reference to the first child in the childNodes collection of the object.
IDid Retrieves the string identifying the object.
isContentEditable Retrieves the value indicating whether the user can edit the contents of the object.
isDisabled Retrieves the value indicating whether the user can interact with the object.
isMultiLine Retrieves the value indicating whether the content of the object contains one or more lines.
isTextEdit Retrieves whether a TextRange object can be created using the object.
lastChild Retrieves a reference to the last child in the childNodes collection of an object.
nextSibling Retrieves a reference to the next child of the parent for the object.
nodeName Retrieves the name of a particular type of node.
nodeType Retrieves the type of the requested node.
nodeValue Sets or retrieves the value of a node.
ownerDocument   Sets or retrieves the document object associated with the node.
parentElement Retrieves the parent object in the object hierarchy.
parentNode Retrieves the parent object in the document hierarchy.
parentTextEdit Retrieves the container object in the document hierarchy that can be used to create a TextRange containing the original object.
previousSibling Retrieves a reference to the previous child of the parent for the object.
readyState Retrieves the current state of the object.
scopeName Retrieves the namespace defined for the element.
SIZEsize Sets or retrieves the font size of the object.
sourceIndex Retrieves the ordinal position of the object, in source order, as the object appears in the document's all collection.
tagName Retrieves the tag name of the object.
tagUrn Sets or retrieves the Uniform Resource Name (URN) specified in the namespace declaration.
uniqueID Retrieves an autogenerated, unique identifier for the object.
BehaviorDescription
clientCaps Provides information about features supported by Internet Explorer, as well as a way for installing browser components on demand.
download Downloads a file and notifies a specified callback function when the download is complete.
homePage Contains information about a user's homepage.
CollectionDescription
all Returns a reference to the collection of elements contained by the object.
attributes Retrieves a collection of attributes of the object.
behaviorUrns Returns a collection of Uniform Resource Name (URN) strings identifying the behaviors attached to the element.
childNodes Retrieves a collection of HTML Elements and TextNode objects that are direct descendants of the specified object.
children Retrieves a collection of DHTML Objects that are direct descendants of the object.
EventDescription
onlayoutcomplete Fires when the print or print preview layout process finishes filling the current LayoutRect object with content from the source document.
onmouseenter Fires when the user moves the mouse pointer into the object.
onmouseleave Fires when the user moves the mouse pointer outside the boundaries of the object.
onreadystatechange Fires when the state of the object has changed.
MethodDescription
addBehavior Attaches a behavior to the element.
applyElement Makes the element either a child or parent of another element.
attachEvent Binds the specified function to an event, so that the function gets called whenever the event fires on the object.
clearAttributes Removes all attributes and values from the object.
cloneNode Copies a reference to the object from the document hierarchy.
componentFromPoint Returns the component located at the specified coordinates via certain events.
contains Checks whether the given element is contained within the object.
detachEvent Unbinds the specified function from the event, so that the function stops receiving notifications when the event fires.
dragDrop Initiates a drag event.
fireEvent Fires a specified event on the object.
getAdjacentText Returns the adjacent text string.
getAttribute Retrieves the value of the specified attribute.
getAttributeNode   Retrieves an attribute object referenced by the attribute.name property.
getBoundingClientRect Retrieves an object that specifies the bounds of a collection of TextRectangle objects.
getClientRects Retrieves a collection of rectangles that describes the layout of the contents of an object or range within the client. Each rectangle describes a single line.
getElementsByTagName Retrieves a collection of objects based on the specified element name.
hasChildNodes Returns a value that indicates whether the object has children.
insertAdjacentElement Inserts an element at the specified location.
insertAdjacentHTML Inserts the given HTML text into the element at the location.
insertAdjacentText Inserts the given text into the element at the specified location.
mergeAttributes Copies all read/write attributes to the specified element.
normalize   Merges adjacent TextNode objects to produce a normalized document object model.
removeAttribute Removes the given attribute from the object.
removeAttributeNode   Removes an attribute object from the object.
removeBehavior Detaches a behavior from the element.
replaceAdjacentText Replaces the text adjacent to the element.
setAttribute Sets the value of the specified attribute.
setAttributeNode   Sets an attribute object node as part of the object.
swapNode Exchanges the location of two objects in the document hierarchy.
Style attributeStyle propertyDescription
background-position-xbackgroundPositionX Sets or retrieves the x-coordinate of the backgroundPosition property.
background-position-ybackgroundPositionY Sets or retrieves the y-coordinate of the backgroundPosition property.
behaviorbehavior Sets or retrieves the location of the Introduction to DHTML Behaviors.
font-familyfontFamily Sets or retrieves the name of the font used for text in the object.
layout-gridlayoutGrid Sets or retrieves the composite document grid properties that specify the layout of text characters.
layout-grid-modelayoutGridMode Sets or retrieves whether the text layout grid uses two dimensions.
pixelBottom Sets or retrieves the bottom position of the object.
pixelHeight Sets or retrieves the height of the object.
pixelLeft Sets or retrieves the left position of the object.
pixelRight Sets or retrieves the right position of the object.
pixelTop Sets or retrieves the top position of the object.
pixelWidth Sets or retrieves the width of the object.
posBottom Sets or retrieves the bottom position of the object in the units specified by the bottom attribute.
posHeight Sets or retrieves the height of the object in the units specified by the height attribute.
posLeft Sets or retrieves the left position of the object in the units specified by the left attribute.
posRight Sets or retrieves the right position of the object in the units specified by the right attribute.
posTop Sets or retrieves the top position of the object in the units specified by the top attribute.
posWidth Sets or retrieves the width of the object in the units specified by the width attribute.
text-autospacetextAutospace Sets or retrieves the autospacing and narrow space width adjustment of text.
text-underline-positiontextUnderlinePosition Sets or retrieves the position of the underline decoration that is set through the textDecoration property of the object.
white-spacewhiteSpace Sets or retrieves a value that indicates whether lines are automatically broken inside the object.

Remarks

This element can be used only within the BODY element or the HEAD element. BASEFONT should appear before any displayed text in the body of the document.

This element is available in HTML as of Internet Explorer 3.0, and in script as of Internet Explorer 4.0.

This element is not rendered.

This element does not require a closing tag.

Example

This example uses the BASEFONT element to set the base font size, and the FONT element to temporarily override it.

No BASEFONT size specified yet.
<BASEFONT SIZE=4> Set the BASEFONT size.
<FONT SIZE=2> Temporarily override the BASEFONT size.</FONT>
Resume the BASEFONT size.

Standards Information

This object is deprecated in HTML  and is defined in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 .



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