Dumb Moment...someone please help!

[spdrcr]

Ok, I've been using FrontPage for a long long time. I finally got away from it and have gone back to wonderful Notepad. The problem is, I'm having problems with the <SIZE> tag. I am not totally sure what I'm doing wrong but the font is not wanting to go down to a 10p size. The code I have been using is:

<FONT FACE="VERDANA" SIZE="1">

I'm not even a blonde and I'm having blonde moments. PLEASE HELP!!!

[Mark T.]

My choice would be to use CSS for this. The font-tag is depriated in HTML 4.0, but it still works.

If you don't know CSS, take a look at some articles on the network. For now, I think <FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="10px"> should do as well.

[spdrcr]

Thank you sooooo much. I thought it worked without the px. This is how long I've been away from raw HTML.

[Mark T.]

No problem, we are here to help .

[russbellon]

or try it like this:

<font face="Verdana" style="font-size:10pt;">

[goober]

NOTE: I believe the <FONT> tag, while supported in many browsers, is unsupported by the W3C as per the HTML 4.0 specification. They may have changed it back, but I don't think they did.

I would also recommend using CSS. FrontPage, when used long enough, does kind of mess up your coding practices.

Hope this helped. 'Till next time..

[spdrcr]

Yeah, I'm familiar with CSS, so I might just end up going with that towards the end. That is, once I have the page all up and ready to go. Thanks again everyone!

[Maelstrom]

Originally posted by spdrcr
Yeah, I'm familiar with CSS, so I might just end up going with that towards the end. That is, once I have the page all up and ready to go. Thanks again everyone!

Just change it to a <span> tag. The effect will be the same and you will be validated.

[Aes]

Originally posted by Maelstrom
Just change it to a <span> tag. The effect will be the same and you will be validated.

Ditto. It's always better to use valid HTML mark-up instead of depreciated mark-up. Good luck.

[psalzer]

I don't disagree..might as well use CSS at this point, but I thought that if your doc type was transitional, font tags would validate, even though deprecated.

[spdrcr]

Tried CSS on it and it didn't take to well. I'm gonna work on it some more when I have everything done though.

Another question...
What's the code to Indent the first line in a paragraph?

[goober]

you can do this with CSS as well I think, but I'm unsure exactly how.

[Snegolle]

There is also </font> but the best way is to use CSS, find on the web something about this.

[Taltal]

In CSS you can use P {text-indent: 0.25in;} to indent the first line of your paragraph text. This example will make the first line indent a quarter inch.

[gregc]

Or you could just do this:

<style>

font {size: 10px; color: #000000}

</style>

<font>Hey this is my text</font>

Or you could do this if you liked:

<style>

#font {size: 10px; color: #000000}

</style>

<font id=font>Hey this is my text</font>

A bit of CSS for ya

[Maelstrom]

Originally posted by psalzer
I don't disagree..might as well use CSS at this point, but I thought that if your doc type was transitional, font tags would validate, even though deprecated.

It would work but you might as well do the right thing from the start and use <span> tags