BODY document body 4.01 Transitional

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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 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	color code as #RRGGBB in hexadecimal or 16 named colors; color of selected (active) links
background	CDATA	#IMPLIED	Uniform Resource Identifier as per RFC2396; a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a URI; texture tile for document background
bgcolor	CDATA	#IMPLIED	color code as #RRGGBB in hexadecimal or 16 named colors; document background color
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
link	CDATA	#IMPLIED	color code as #RRGGBB in hexadecimal or 16 named colors; color of links
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
text	CDATA	#IMPLIED	color code as #RRGGBB in hexadecimal or 16 named colors; document text color
title	CDATA	#IMPLIED	text; advisory title
vlink	CDATA	#IMPLIED	color code as #RRGGBB in hexadecimal or 16 named colors; color of visited links

Content

( P | H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 | UL | OL | DIR | MENU | PRE | DL | DIV | CENTER | NOSCRIPT | BLOCKQUOTE | FORM | ISINDEX | HR | TABLE | FIELDSET | ADDRESS | #PCDATA | TT | I | B | U | S | STRIKE | BIG | SMALL | EM | STRONG | DFN | CODE | SAMP | KBD | VAR | CITE | ABBR | ACRONYM | A | IMG | APPLET | OBJECT | FONT | BASEFONT | BR | SCRIPT | MAP | Q | SUB | SUP | SPAN | BDO | INPUT | SELECT | TEXTAREA | LABEL | BUTTON )* +( INS | DEL )

End tag

Optional </BODY>

Referenced in

HTML