User:Erbingha/Body Tags

The BODY tags contain the contents of the web page - the part that is printed when someone prints your page. It follows the HEAD section as shown below.The BODY tags contain the contents of the web page - the part that is printed when someone prints your page. It follows the HEAD section as shown below. NOTE: Do not confuse the HEAD section of the html file with the top portion of the printed page. Likewise, the BODY section of the html file does not represent the body of the printed page. Attributes Function BGCOLOR Defines a color to be used for the background of the page. Colors may be denoted by standard RGB hexadecimal color notation or one of the sixteen named colors shown below.

Syntax: Example: Example: This background image will not print and may hinder the readability and loading time of a page. TEXT Defines a color to be used for the text in the page. Colors may be denoted by standard RGB hexadecimal color notation or one of the sixteen named colors shown below.

Syntax: Example: Example: The default TEXT color is black or #000000 LINK VLINK ALINK Defines a color to be used for the text that represents the links in the page. Colors may be denoted by standard RGB hexadecimal color notation or one of the sixteen named colors shown below. VLINK represents "visited links", and ALINK represents "active links". The default color for LINK is blue, VLINK is purple and ALINK is red.

Syntax: Example: Example: All (or any number) of these attributes may be combined as shown in the following example: Colors Black Silver Gray White Maroon Red Purple Fuchsia Green Lime Olive Yellow Navy Blue Teal Aqua. There is no exactly defined rgb value for these keywords, it is up to the browser developers to decide what they might mean.

By: John Dorner, IV, Area Specialized Agent, Information Management