BODY document body HTML 3.2

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BODY

Purpose

code as #RRGGBB in hexadecimal or 16 named colors; document body

Description

This element encloses the text flow of a document. Note that you only have one body. For example:

<BODY alink="blue" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" link="red" text="olive" vlink="#104E8B">
  <H1>
   Hello, World!
  </H1>
  <P>
   This is a minimal "hello world" HTML document. 
  </P>
</BODY>

Set attribute colors with color codes as #RRGGBB in hexadecimal or 16 named colors

Start tag

Optional <BODY>

Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Comment
alink	CDATA	#IMPLIED	code as #RRGGBB in hexadecimal or 16 named colors; color of hypertext links when clicked
background	CDATA	#IMPLIED	Uniform Resource Locator; see RFC1808 and RFC1738; url of image file for texture tile for document background
bgcolor	CDATA	#IMPLIED	code as #RRGGBB in hexadecimal or 16 named colors; background color of document body
link	CDATA	#IMPLIED	code as #RRGGBB in hexadecimal or 16 named colors; color of unvisited hypertext links
text	CDATA	#IMPLIED	code as #RRGGBB in hexadecimal or 16 named colors; color of document text
vlink	CDATA	#IMPLIED	code as #RRGGBB in hexadecimal or 16 named colors; color of visited hypertext links

Content

( H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 | #PCDATA | TT | I | B | U | STRIKE | BIG | SMALL | SUB | SUP | EM | STRONG | DFN | CODE | SAMP | KBD | VAR | CITE | A | IMG | APPLET | FONT | BASEFONT | BR | SCRIPT | MAP | INPUT | SELECT | TEXTAREA | P | UL | OL | DIR | MENU | PRE | DL | DIV | CENTER | BLOCKQUOTE | FORM | ISINDEX | HR | TABLE | ADDRESS )*

End tag

Optional </BODY>

Referenced in

HTML