HTML 4 Depricated this tag, you should get rid of it. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C, the people responsible for the HTML standard) admit that they got HTML3 badly wrong when it comes to styling.
Refs:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_styles.asp[
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and
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp[
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HTML was orignally about document
content not document
format the W3C started to mix these up in HTML, the result was things like the
<font>
tag, and it made things ugly. The W3C are in the process of removing these tags in the standard thankfully. New browsers following the standard do not need to support this tag. My advice is to get rid of the
<font>
tags and replace with stylesheets if at all practical.