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Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
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Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

by Jennifer Robbins
February 2006
Intermediate to advanced
826 pages
63h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

body

Synopsis

    <body>...</body>

Attributes

Core attributes:id, class, style, title
Internationalization:lang, xml:lang, dir
Intrinsic Events:onload, onunload, onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup

Deprecated Attributes

alink="#rrggbb" or "color name"
background=" URL "
bgcolor="#rrggbb" or "color name"
link="#rrggbb" or "color name"
text="#rrggbb" or "color name"
vlink="#rrggbb" or "color name"

The body element may include any combination of block-level elements, inline elements, and forms. In other words, it contains all the elements in the normal document flow. For visual browsers, the body acts as a canvas where the content appears. Audio user agents may speak the content of the body.

The HTML 3.0 Recommendation added a number of presentational attributes for the body element that had been introduced by browser developers and were in common use. At the time, they were the only mechanism for setting the color for all the links and text in the document or for adding a background color or image to the page. A single body opening tag may contain a number of specific attributes, as shown here:

    <body text="color" link="color" vlink="color" alink="color">

Today, of course, style sheets are the correct way to handle matters of presentation, so all of the presentational attributes for the body element are officially deprecated and are discouraged from use.

Because they are still in the Transitional DTD and universally supported ...

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