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title: '<big>: The Bigger Text element'
slug: Web/HTML/Element/big
page-type: html-element
status:
  - deprecated
browser-compat: html.elements.big

---

{{HTMLSidebar}}{{deprecated_header}}

The <big> HTML deprecated element renders the enclosed text at a font size one level larger than the surrounding text (medium becomes large, for example). The size is capped at the browser's maximum permitted font size.

Warning: This element has been removed from the specification and shouldn't be used anymore. Use the CSS {{cssxref("font-size")}} property to adjust the font size.

Attributes

This element has no other attributes than the global attributes, common to all elements.

Examples

Here we see examples showing the use of <big> followed by an example showing how to accomplish the same results using modern CSS syntax instead.

Using big

This example uses the obsolete <big> element to increase the size of some text.

HTML

<p>
  This is the first sentence.
  <big>This whole sentence is in bigger letters.</big>
</p>

Result

{{EmbedLiveSample("Using_big", 640, 60)}}

Using CSS font-size

This example uses the CSS {{cssxref("font-size")}} property to increase the font size by one level.

CSS

.bigger {
  font-size: larger;
}

HTML

<p>
  This is the first sentence.
  <span class="bigger">This whole sentence is in bigger letters.</span>
</p>

Result

{{EmbedLiveSample("Using_CSS_font-size", 640, 60)}}

DOM interface

This element implements the {{domxref('HTMLElement')}} interface.

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

• CSS: {{cssxref("font-size")}}, {{cssxref("font")}}

• HTML: {{htmlelement("small")}}, {{htmlelement("font")}}, {{htmlelement("style")}}

• HTML 4.01 Specification: Font Styles