BODY document body XHTML 1.0 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> 
  <h1>
   Hello, World!
  </h1>
  <p>
   This is a minimal "hello world" document. 
  </p>
</body>

Start tag

Required <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	NMTOKEN	#IMPLIED	language code (backwards compatible); language code as RFC3066
link	CDATA	#IMPLIED	color code as #RRGGBB in hexadecimal or 16 named colors; color of links
onclick	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer button was clicked; script expression
ondblclick	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer button was double clicked; script expression
onkeydown	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a key was pressed down; script expression
onkeypress	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a key was pressed and released; script expression
onkeyup	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a key was released; script expression
onload	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; the document has been loaded
onmousedown	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer button was pressed down; script expression
onmousemove	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer was moved within; script expression
onmouseout	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer was moved away; script expression
onmouseover	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer was moved onto; script expression
onmouseup	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer button was released; script expression
onunload	CDATA	#IMPLIED	script expression; the document has been removed
style	CDATA	#IMPLIED	associated style info; style sheet data
text	CDATA	#IMPLIED	color code as #RRGGBB in hexadecimal or 16 named colors; document text color
title	CDATA	#IMPLIED	advisory title; text used for titles
vlink	CDATA	#IMPLIED	color code as #RRGGBB in hexadecimal or 16 named colors; color of visited links
xml:lang	NMTOKEN	#IMPLIED	language code (as per XML 1.0 spec); language code as RFC3066

Content

( #PCDATA | p | h1 | h2 | h3 | h4 | h5 | h6 | div | ul | ol | dl | menu | dir | pre | hr | blockquote | address | center | noframes | isindex | fieldset | table | form | a | br | span | bdo | object | applet | img | map | iframe | tt | i | b | u | s | strike | big | small | font | basefont | em | strong | dfn | code | q | samp | kbd | var | cite | abbr | acronym | sub | sup | input | select | textarea | label | button | noscript | ins | del | script )*

End tag

Required </body>

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