Big Element Tutorial

<big>

Introductory Text

The big element represents big text.

[Note: This presentation element was developed before CSS; HTML 4.01 suggests that style sheets are used instead of this element whereas it has been obsoleted in HTML 5.]

Start tag:: <big>
End tag:: </big>

Use Examples

Example [Basic]:

This is the HTML 4.01 version.

Code [HTML]:


<p><big>This is the <abbr>HTML</abbr> 4.01 version.</big></p>

Example [Basic (Text-Level CSS)]:

HTML 5 allows the small element to be used for fine print.

[Note: Big elements should be allowed for broadsides: Circuses' & Statesmens'.]

Code [HTML]:


<p><big style="color:#606973;font-size:5em;font-family: OFLSortsMillGoudyRegular, 'Times New Roman', »
Times, serif;"><abbr>HTML</abbr> 5 allows the <a href="/html-elements/inline/small-element" title="View »
'Small' element page"><code>small</code></a> element to be used for fine print.</big></p>
<p><small>[Note: <code>Big</code> elements should be allowed for broadsides: Circuses' & Statesmens'.] »
</small></p>

Example [CSS]:

This is the style sheet version.

Code [HTML]:


<p class="largeTextHighlighted">This is the style sheet version.</p>

Code [CSS]:


.largeTextHighlighted {
    padding: 20px 0 20px 30px;
    color: #778899;    /* #778899 = 3.64:1/Passed at Level AA for large text  */
    font: 2em Garamond, Times, serif;
}

Content Model/Assigned Attributes

Element-Type:

Text-Level

Attributes:

</big>