The <big> element renders text in a larger font than the surrounding text.

Considerations

It is best to avoid presentation elements such as the <big> element. You should use semantic elements instead. Semantic elements provide greater flexibility in presentation.

Common attributes

The <big> element supports the class, dir, id, lang, style, and title attributes.

For more information, see Common attributes.

Event attributes

The <big> element supports the onclick, onkeydown, onkeypress, onkeyup, onmousedown, onmousemove, onmouseout, onmouseover, and onmouseup events.

For more information, see HTML event attributes.