BODY document body HTML 4.01 Strict

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BODY

Purpose

document body

Description

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

<BODY> 
  <H1>
   Hello, World!
  </H1>
  <P>
   This is a minimal "hello world" HTML document. 
  </P>
</BODY>

Start tag

Optional <BODY>

Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Comment
class	CDATA	#IMPLIED	space-separated list of classes
dir	( ltr \| rtl )	#IMPLIED	direction for weak/neutral text
id	ID	#IMPLIED	document-wide unique id
lang	NAME	#IMPLIED	language code as RFC1766; language code
onclick	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer button was clicked
ondblclick	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer button was double clicked
onkeydown	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a key was pressed down
onkeypress	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a key was pressed and released
onkeyup	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a key was released
onload	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; the document has been loaded
onmousedown	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer button was pressed down
onmousemove	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer was moved within
onmouseout	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer was moved away
onmouseover	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer was moved onto
onmouseup	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; a pointer button was released
onunload	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; the document has been removed
style	CDATA	#IMPLIED	style sheet data; associated style info
title	CDATA	#IMPLIED	text; advisory title

( P | H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 | UL | OL | PRE | DL | DIV | NOSCRIPT | BLOCKQUOTE | FORM | HR | TABLE | FIELDSET | ADDRESS | SCRIPT )+ +( INS | DEL )

End tag

Optional </BODY>

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