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<blackface></blackface>

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BLACKFACE Description:

A WebTV tag that displays text as double-weight bold. This tag has been deprecated in favor of the font-weight CSS style property.

BLACKFACE Web Browser Support:

BLACKFACE Attributes:

none

BLACKFACE End Tag:

</blackface> REQUIRED

BLACKFACE Contents:

CDATA. The text that the designer wants doubly bold. The following tags are valid within the BLACKFACE tag:
a, abbr, acronym, applet, b, basefont, bdo, big, br, button, cite, code, dfn, em, font, i, iframe, img, input, kbd, label, map, object, q, s, samp, script, select, small, span, strike, strong, sub, sup, textarea, tt, u, var

BLACKFACE Valid Context:

The BLACKFACE tag is valid within the following tags:
a, abbr, acronym, address, applet, b, bdo, big, blockquote, body, button, caption, center, cite, code, dd, del, dfn, div, dt, em, fieldset, font, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, i, iframe, ins, kbd, label, legend, li, noframes, noscript, object, p, pre, q, s, samp, small, span, strike, strong, sub, sup, td, th, tt, u, var

BLACKFACE Usage:

Standard blackface

<p>This paragraph has standard text, <b>bold text</b>, and <blackface>blackface text</blackface>. If you view it in an MSNTV browser, the blackface text should be even darker than the bold text.</p>

BLACKFACE Special Notes:

  • This is an WebTV/MSN TV tag, and will not display on any other browsers.
  • BLACKFACE is slightly different from bold, but don’t expect that that will make it easy for your customers to differentiate the two.
  • It is recommended that you avoid this tag in favor of style sheets.

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