Name

<body> — NN: 2, 3, 4 &bull; MSIE: 2, 3, 4, 5 &bull; HTML 4 &bull; WebTV &bull; Opera3

Synopsis

<body>...</body>

Defines the beginning and the end of the document body. The body contains the content of the document (the part that is displayed in the browser window). Attributes to the <body> tag affect the entire document.

Attributes

alink=#rrggbb or color name

Sets the color of active links (i.e., the color while the mouse button is held down during a “click”). Color is specified in hexadecimal RGB values or by standard web color name.

background=url

Provides the URL to a graphic file to be used as a tiling graphic in the background of the document.

bgcolor=#rrggbb or color name

Sets the color of the background for the document.

link=#rrggbb or color name

Sets the default color for all the links in the document.

text=#rrggbb or color name

Sets the default color for all the text in the document.

vlink=#rrggbb or color name

Sets the color of the visited links for the document.

Navigator 4.0 only

marginwidth=number

Specifies the distance (in pixels) between the left browser edge and the beginning of the text and graphics in the window.

marginheight=number

Specifies the distance (in pixels) between the top edge of the browser and the top edge of text or graphics in the window.

Internet Explorer only

bgproperties=fixed

When set to “fixed,” the background image does not scroll with the document content.

leftmargin=number

Specifies the distance (in pixels) between the left browser edge and the beginning of ...

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