Name
<BODY> — NN all IE all HTML all
Synopsis
<BODY>...</BODY>
End Tag: Optional
After all of the prefatory material in
the HEAD portion of an HTML file, the
BODY element contains the genuine content of the
page that the user sees in the browser window (or may hear when
browsers know how to speak to users). Before style sheets, the
BODY element was the place where page authors
could specify document-wide color and background schemes. A great
many favorite attributes covering these properties are deprecated in
HTML 4, in favor of style sheet rules that may be applied to the
BODY element. Support for all these attributes,
however, will remain in Navigator and Internet Explorer for years to
come.
The BODY element is also where
window object event handlers are placed. For
example, a window object as defined in most
document object models has an onLoad event handler
that fires when a document has finished loading into the current
window or frame. Assigning that event handler as an element attribute
is done in the BODY element.
Although it may appear from a variety of implications that the
BODY element is the document
object, this is not entirely true. The document
object has additional properties (such as the
document.title) that are defined outside of the
BODY element in an HTML document. Also, most
browsers don’t quibble when you omit either or both the start
and end tags. But if you are debugging a page, it’s helpful to
see the end tags for the BODY and
HTML elements when viewing the ...
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