The Document Body
The document body is the meat of the matter; it’s
where you put the contents of your document. The
<body> tag delimits the document body.
The <body> Tag
Within HTML 4 and XHTML,
the <body> tag has a number of attributes
that control the color and background of your document. Various
browsers have extended the tag to give even greater control over your
document’s appearance.
<body>
- Function
Defines the document body
- Attributes
alink,background,bgcolor,bgproperties,class,dir,id,lang,leftmargin(
), link,onBlur,onClick,onDblClick,onFocus,onKeyDown,onKeyPress,onKeyUp,onLoad,onMouseDown,onMouseMove,onMouseOut,onMouseOver,onMouseUp,onUnload,style,text,title,topmargin(), vlink,onKeyDown- End tag
</body>; may be omitted in HTML- Contains
body_content
- Used in
html_tag
Anything between the <body> tag and its
ending counterpart, </body>, is called
body content. The simplest document might have
only a sequence of text paragraphs within the
<body> tag. More complex documents might
include heavily formatted text, graphical figures, tables, and a
variety of special effects.
Since the position of the <body> and
</body> tags can be inferred by the browser,
they can safely be omitted from an HTML, but not an XHTML, document.
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