BODY - Document body

Appearance:	[<BODY>] [</BODY>]
Attributes:	BACKGROUND=`URL`, BGCOLOR=`#RRGGBB`, TEXT=`#RRGGBB`, LINK=`#RRGGBB`, VLINK=`#RRGGBB`, ALINK=`#RRGGBB`
Contents:	H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, P, UL, OL, DIR, MENU, PRE, DL, DIV, CENTER, BLOCKQUOTE, FORM, HR, TABLE, ADDRESS, as well as TT, I, B, U, STRIKE, BIG, SMALL, SUP, SUB, EM, STRONG, DFN, CODE, SAMP, KBD, VAR, CITE, A, IMG, FONT, APPLET, BR, SCRIPT, MAP, INPUT, SELECT, TEXTAREA and plain text.
May occur in:	HTML.

The BODY tag contains the actual contents of the document. That contents should consist of block elements only. You may put in plain text in the body, this is then assumed to be inside a P container.

The attributes contain the appearance of the document. The BACKGROUND attribute should point to the location of an image, which is used as the (tiled) background of the document. The other attributes set the colors for the background, text, links, visited links and active (currently being selected) links, using the order above.

The color is composed by specifying the red, green and blue components of the color in hexadecimal notation, with a # in front. For example, to specify white, the red, green and blue components are 255, 255, 255, so you would use "#FFFFFF".

The BODY tag is optional; if you put all the HEAD elements first, the browser can immediately see where the actual document body begins.

Notes:

If the background image cannot be displayed, the color specified in BGCOLOR will be used.
If you set one of the attributes, set them all. Otherwise your specified color may conflict with a user's default. This could result in unreadable text. For example, imagine that you set your TEXT color to light gray, but forget to set the background. Then someone with a light gray background will not see anything at all.
Do not set unvisited and visited links to the same color, it will confuse your readers.
The specification suggests a list of names that you can use instead of the hexadecimal values, but these names are not widely supported. The specification also does not assign the color names to specific hex values, although it says they are picked from the "standard MS Windows VGA palette." The names are aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow.
Netscape 1.1 produced a "fade" effect when more than one BODY tag was used in a document. It would render the BGCOLOR colors in sequence. This bug has been fixed in later versions. Do not expect that using multiple BODY tags will give the intended results.

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