Name
body — HTML 4.01 | HTML5
Synopsis
<body> . . . </body>
The body of a document contains the document’s content. Content
may be presented visually (as in a graphical browser window) or
aurally (by a screen reader). There may only be one body element in a document. In HTML
documents, it is optional; in XHTML it is required.
Notes
All of the presentational attributes for the body are deprecated in (X)HTML and have been
dropped from HTML5 in favor of style sheet controls.
Start/End Tags
HTML 4.01 and 5: Optional/Optional; XHTML: Required/Required
Attributes
Core,
Internationalization,
Events; plus onload and onunload
HTML5 Global Attributes; plus onafterprint, onbeforeprint, onbeforeunload, onblur, onerror, onfocus, onhashchange, onload, onmessage, onoffline, ononline, onpagehide, onpageshow, onpopstate, onredo, onresize, onstorage, onundo, and onunload
alink="#rrggbb"or"color name"Deprecated. Not in HTML5. Sets the color of active links (the color while the mouse button is held down during a click).
background="URL"Deprecated. Not in HTML5. Provides the location of a graphic file to be used as a tiling graphic in the background of the document.
bgcolor="#rrggbb"or"color name"Deprecated. Not in HTML5. Sets the color of the background for the document.
link="#rrggbb"or"color name"Deprecated. Not in HTML5. Sets the default color for all the links in the document.
text="#rrggbb"or"color name"Deprecated. Not in HTML5. Sets the default color for all the nonhyperlink and unstyled text in the ...
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