Body

The largest part of your HTML document is the body, which contains the content of your document, that's put in-between the BODY start tag and ending tag. Most of the tags that will be explained are used within the body of your HTML document.

Body Attributes

Any attributes that are put into the body tag effects the whole page, althought an inline font tag with the color attributes can override the body color and link attributes.

You can change the background color of a page like this:

<BODY BGCOLOR="Black">

You can use a background image like this:

<BODY BGCOLOR="Black" Background="Stars.gif">

You can change the text color like this:

<BODY BGCOLOR="Black" Background="Stars.gif" Color="White">

You can change the link color like this:

<BODY BGCOLOR="Black" Background="Stars.gif" Color="White" LINK="Blue">

You can change the vlink color like this:

<BODY BGCOLOR="Black" Background="Stars.gif" Color="White" LINK="Blue" VLINK="Gray">

You can change the alink color like this:

<BODY BGCOLOR="Black" Background="Stars.gif" Color="White" LINK="Blue" VLINK="Gray" ALINK="Red">

VLINK stands for visited link, and AKINK stands for activated link. A vlink is a link you have allready followed and will be a different color from links you havent followed. an alink will chane color when you click on a link.

The Body tag is a closed tag.