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Enlarges the font size from its current value by 1.

HTML 3, 3.2, 4, 4.01. Deprecated

HTML Syntax

<big> ... </big>

NOTE: Both start and end tags are required.

The <big> element has the same effect as using the <font> element with a size value of +1. It renders text in the next bigger size of the current font.

<big> tags can be nested, and each nested <big> element will further increase the size by one size bigger.

NOTE: This element has been deprecated in favor of CSS stylesheets.

The <big> element has no attribute of its own, but supports global attributes common to all HTML elements.

The following example shows how the <big> element may be used.

<p>As Alice ate the cookies, she felt herself grow 
   <big>bigger, and <big>bigger, and 
   <big>bigger.</big></big></big>

As Alice ate the cookies, she felt herself grow bigger, and bigger, and bigger.

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