The Body Tag

<BODY></BODY>
The BODY tag is a required HTML tag. It is only omitted when using frames. All codes used for structuring your HTML page is placed within the opening and closing body tags.

•ALINK sets the color that appears when you click a link.

<alink="colorname"> •VLINK sets the color of a previously visited link. <vlink="colorname"> •LINK sets the color of unused links. <link="colorname"> •BGCOLOR sets the color for the entire page. <bgcolor="colorname"> •BODY BACKGROUND sets an image or patern for the entire page. <body background="image.gif"> •TEXT sets the color of text on the page. <text="colorname"> Color names can be specified using names, RGB code or Hex code.

Background image is usally a .gif or .jpg file. You must specify a path if the image is not located in the same server or directory as the parent program. This setting tiles the image on the page or repeats it to cover the entire area.

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