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Explanation
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Body
Tag
It acts as a container for the body of the HTML document. Generally,
it appears after </HEAD> tag.
Ex:-
<html>
<head>
<title>An Example</title>
</head>
<body>
This is a small example
</body>
</html>
Now, we'll see attributes that BODY element supports;
| Attribute | Description |
| BACKGROUND | It specifies both relative and absolute path of an
image file that was tiled accross the document <BODY BACKGROUND="logo.gif"> |
| BGCOLOR | It indicates the back ground color. <BODY BGCOLOR="#0099BB"> |
| BGPROPERTIES | It specifies the behaviour of the background image whether
FIXED or SCROLL. <BODY BACKGROUND="logo.gif" BGPROPERTIES="FIXED"> |
| CLASS | It indicates to which style sheet, body tag is linked-up. Ex:-<BODY CLASS="ChangeTextColor"> |
| SCROLL | It indicates whether scrolling is possible within the
document body. <BODY BACKGROUND="logo.gif" SCROLL="no"> |
| LEFTMARGIN & TOPMARGIN |
It specifies the left and top margins (in pixels). Ex:-<BODY LEFTMARGIN="30" TOPMARGIN="20"> |
| STYLE | It specifies the style sheet commands to the body
text. <BODY STYLE="bgcolor: lightblue"> |
| Other attributes that BODY tag supports
are ALINK, LINK, TEXT, TITLE and VLINK. <BODY TEXT="#000000" ALINK="#998800" VLINK="#88BBCC"> |
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Center the text
in a document
It places the text according to the left and right margins of the document.
<CENTER>This text is centered</CENTER>
Format the
text in a HTML document using FONT tag
It alters or sets the font characterstics of the font the browser uses
to display text.
Ex:- <FONT>ENJOY</FONT>
| Attribute | Description |
| COLOR | It indicates the color of the text to be displayed
on the document in hexadecimal. <FONT COLOR="#99BBCC">Hello! How is this?</FONT> |
| FACE | A list of font names has to be provided. It renders
the first font from the font list, if present, it sets. Otherwise,
it checks for the second font and goes on. <FONT FACE="ARIAL, Verdana">Hello! How is this?</FONT> |
| SIZE | It is used to size the font. <FONT SIZE="+3">Hello! How is this?</FONT> |
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