BODY

Description

Contains all the text and iamges that consist the page. This element can be used to set the background image, the background color, the link color and the top and left margins of the page.

Syntax

<BODY
ALINK=color
LINK=color
VLINK=color
BACKGROUND=url
BGCOLOR=color
BGPROPERTIES=FIXED
CLASS=Style Sheet class name
ID=value
LANG=language
LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT | JSCRIPT | VBSCRIPT | VBS
LEFTMARGIN=pixels
RIGHTMARGIN=pixels
BOTTOMMARGIN=pixels
TOPMARGIN=n
SCROLL=YES|NO
STYLE=styling
TEXT=color
TITLE=string
event = script
>

Parameter

Description

ALINK

The color for the active link.

LINK

The color of shortcuts that have not yet been visited.

VLINK

The color of shortcuts that have already been visited.

BACKGROUND

Specifies an image file that will be tiled across the browser window, to provide a background for the document.

BGCOLOR

Sets the background color of the page.

BGPROPERTIES

Specifies a watermark, which is a background picture that does not scroll.

CLASS

Class of the tag being defined. This is used to associate a subclassed style sheet with the tag.

ID

SGML identifier used as the target for hypertext links or for naming particular elements in associated style sheets. Valid ID values must begin with a letter. The underscore character, "_", may be used in the ID name. The ID should be unique throughout the scope of the document. If more than one object with the same identifier exists in a document, a collection of those named items is created that can only be referenced by ordinal position.

LANG

Specifies which language to use in ISO standard language abbreviation form.

LANGUAGE

Specifies the language the current script is written in and invokes the proper scripting engine. The default value is JAVASCRIPT.
* JAVASCRIPT, JSCRIPT The script is written in JScript.
* VBS, VBSCRIPT The script is written in VBScript.

LEFTMARGIN

The left margin of the document to be set in pixels.

RIGHTMARGIN

The right margin of the document to be set in pixels.

BOTTOMMARGIN

The bottom margin of the document to be set in pixels.

TOPMARGIN

The top margin of the document to be set in pixels.

SCROLL

Turns on or off the scrollbars. The default is YES.

STYLE

Inline style sheet for the tag.

TEXT

Sets the color of text on the page.

TITLE

The TITLE attribute is for advisory information (unless used with a mailto: attribute). The Title attribute should provide the title of the document whose address is given by the HREF attribute. The contents of the title attribute will be displayed in a tooltip during the mouse moves on the link. Internet Explorer 4.0 (and above) is the only browser to implement this.

event

Can be one or more of these events:
onafterupdate ;
onbeforeunload ;
onbeforeupdate ;
onclick ;
ondblclick ;
ondragstart ;
onhelp ;
onkeydown ;
onkeypress ;
onkeyup ;
onload ;
onmousedown ;
onmousemove ;
onmouseout ;
onmouseover ;
onmouseup ;
onrowenter ;
onrowexit ;
onscroll ;
onselect ;
onselectstart ;
onunload

Example

<BODY BACKGROUND="images/bk.gif" BGPROPERTIES=FIXED BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF TEXT=#000000 LINK=#ff6600 VLINK=#330099>This is the body test page. </BODY>

Remarks

This element is a block element. Both the start and end tags are required.

Related Topics

BGSOUND