The Body of the Document

The Body of the document starts with a <Body> tag. This is the part of the document where you will put all of the text and multimedia elements you want to see in the browser window.

Inside the <body> tag attributes may be added that will change the background of the document, like <BODY BGCOLOR> and <BODY BACKGROUND>.

<BODY BGCOLOR> is set by putting in the RGB values for a color in their hexadecimal for to get a specific color for your background.

Example:
<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> = white

For examples of hexadecimal colors see The Color Specifier for Netscape.

The <BODY BACKGROUND> tag will allow you to put an image into the background of your document.

To do this type:
<BODY BACKGROUND=filename.gif>

Be careful not to let your backgrounds overwhelm or detract from the content of your page. Once you have established the canvas, it's time to add information. One of the first bits of info to include is a Header. There are several kinds of Headers available...

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The Body of the Document

Last modified: June 19, 1997