How to Change Fonts on WebTV

There are two ways for WebTV users to utilize graphics: Direct Linking or using a Transloader service. You can change the fonts using HTML tags.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

1. Look for the Netscape-named colors available for WebTV by typing the color name in lowercase and as a single word with no spaces. For instance, Dark Olive Green is typed in the code tag as "darkolivegreen."
2. Change the color of the font with the HTML tag , where you would replace "colorname" with a Netscape colorname, or an RGB hex number.
Change the font color of the header and body text of e-mail and newsgroup posts with a code in the signature. Use the code (using one of the Netscape colornames, or an RGB hex code).
Change the size of the font with the HTML tag , where you would replace the "?" with a number 1 through 7.
Use font styles to make the text italic, strikethrough, bold, blackface, and underlined. The codes are , , , , and . When you want to stop using the style, type the same code, but with a / before the text in the code, for instance .
Enter several font effects attributes available using WebTV: shadow, emboss, and relief ' with the tag, for example, .
Make sure is the very first thing in the message body text.
Font styles and effects in the body of the message can't be specified with codes in the mail signature. If you want to change the style or effect of the body text, you'll have to write the body text as HTML, separately from the signature.