Specifying Font and Size in HTML table

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Specifying Font and Size in HTML table

406.7k Views Asked by Neil Weicher At 06 April 2025 at 13:36

I am trying to specify the Font Face and Size for text in a table. It seems to respect the FACE= but ignores the SIZE=. For example, I have the HTML shown below. It correctly displays the text in Courier New, but both tables display with the same font size. Any clue what I am doing wrong?

<font face="Courier New" size="12"><table width="100%"><tr><td><b>Client</b></td><td><b>InstanceName</b></td><td><b>dbname</b></td><td><b>Filename</b></td><td><b>KeyName</b></td><td><b>Rotation</b></td><td><b>Path</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>NEWDEV6</td><td>EXPRESS2012</td><td>master</td><td>master.mdf</td><td>test_key_16</td><td>0</td><td>d:\Program&nbsp;Files\Microsoft&nbsp;SQL&nbsp;Server\MSSQL11.EXPRESS2012\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf</td></tr>
</table></font>
<font face="Courier New" size="24"><table width="100%"><tr><td><b>Client</b></td><td><b>InstanceName</b></td><td><b>dbname</b></td><td><b>Filename</b></td><td><b>KeyName</b></td><td><b>Rotation</b></td><td><b>Path</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>NEWDEV6</td><td>EXPRESS2012</td><td>master</td><td>master.mdf</td><td>test_key_16</td><td>0</td><td>d:\Program&nbsp;Files\Microsoft&nbsp;SQL&nbsp;Server\MSSQL11.EXPRESS2012\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf</td></tr>
</table></font>

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LexH On 28 December 2016 at 18:54

First, try omitting the quotes from 12 and 24. Worth a shot.

Second, it's better to do this in CSS. See also http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_font.asp . Here is an inline style for a table tag:

<table style='font-family:"Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size:80%' ...>...</table>

Better still, use an external style sheet or a style tag near the top of your HTML document. See also http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_howto.asp .

trevor On 28 December 2016 at 19:02

The font tag has been deprecated for some time now.

That being said, the reason why both of your tables display with the same font size is that the 'size' attribute only accepts values ranging from 1 - 7. The smallest size is 1. The largest size is 7. The default size is 3. Any values larger than 7 will just display the same as if you had used 7, because 7 is the maximum value allowed.

And as @Alex H said, you should be using CSS for this.

Anthony On 07 January 2020 at 04:47

This worked for me and also worked with bootstrap tables

<style>
    .table td, .table th {
        font-size: 10px;
    }
</style>

**Jocimar Candido** · Accepted Answer

Enclose your code with the html and body tags. Size attribute does not correspond to font-size and it looks like its domain does not go beyond value 7. Furthermore font tag is not supported in HTML5. Consider this code for your case

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<font size="2" face="Courier New" >
<table width="100%">
    <tr>
        <td><b>Client</b></td>
        <td><b>InstanceName</b></td>
        <td><b>dbname</b></td>
        <td><b>Filename</b></td>
        <td><b>KeyName</b></td>
        <td><b>Rotation</b></td>
        <td><b>Path</b></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>NEWDEV6</td>
        <td>EXPRESS2012</td>
        <td>master</td><td>master.mdf</td>
        <td>test_key_16</td><td>0</td>
        <td>d:\Program&nbsp;Files\Microsoft&nbsp;SQL&nbsp;Server\MSSQL11.EXPRESS2012\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf</td>
    </tr>
</table>
</font>
<font size="5" face="Courier New" >
<table width="100%">
    <tr>
        <td><b>Client</b></td>
        <td><b>InstanceName</b></td>
        <td><b>dbname</b></td>
        <td><b>Filename</b></td>
        <td><b>KeyName</b></td>
        <td><b>Rotation</b></td>
        <td><b>Path</b></td></tr>
    <tr>
        <td>NEWDEV6</td>
        <td>EXPRESS2012</td>
        <td>master</td>
        <td>master.mdf</td>
        <td>test_key_16</td>
        <td>0</td>
        <td>d:\Program&nbsp;Files\Microsoft&nbsp;SQL&nbsp;Server\MSSQL11.EXPRESS2012\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf</td></tr>
</table></font>
</body>
</html>

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