the <body>tag
The opening and closing body tags mark out the section of the web page that is to be displayed in the browser window.
There are several attributes you can use in the body tag. None are essential. The attributes are used to specify things such as the color of text, links and background. Another is used to specify a background image. Others specify the size of margins. However, there are better ways to do all these things. For the moment we will concentrate on the colors and the background image.
the attributes
color sets the text color.
example: color="navy"
link sets the color of a hyperlink
example: link="lightblue"
vlink sets the color of a visited link
example: vlink="#B0B0B0"
note: this is a light grey, the
number is specified in
hexadecimal form
bgcolor sets the background color of the page
example: bgcolor="#207060"
note: this is a dark bluish color
it is recommended that you set
both "color" and "bgcolor"
together to ensure good contrast
background sets the background image
example: background="images/my-bg.gif"
note: the background image is a file called
my-bg.gif and is in the folder called
images