<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">    
<html>

<head>
<title>HTML Test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<style>
.bf { color: #0000FF; font-size: 80%; font-family: verdana, sans-seif; }
</style>
</head>

<body>

<p>This line of text is before the basefont tag.</p>
<basefont size="4" color="#FF0000" face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">
<p>This is the first line of text after the basefont tag.</p>
<p>This is the second line of text after the basefont tag.</p>

<p class="bf"><strong>Note:</strong> The basefont tag is not supported by most browsers. This line uses an alternative CSS
which could be associated to the body to effect the whole document.
</p>

</body>
</html>