The Guide - Body Tag revisited

Introduction to HTML

	Introduction
	Tools Required - An ASCII text editor.
	Understanding HTML Tags
	More Tags some essential tags.
	BODY Tag revisited
	Conclusion
	Some Important links: List of links which will help you get started

Related Links

1.	World Wide Web Consortium - Organization which defines HTML Standards
2.	Validation Service - Validate your HTML codet

BODY Tag revisited

The attributes of the <BODY> tag are given below.

alink=color : set the color of the active hypertext links in the document
background=URL : specify the URL of the image to be tiled in the document background
bgcolor=color : set the background color of the document
bgproperties=value : if the value is fixed the background will not scroll with the text
leftmargin=value : left margin in pixels
link=color : set the color of the unvisited hyperlink in the text
text=color : set the color of the regular text in the document
topmargin=value : top margin in pixels
vlink=color : set the color of the visited links in the document

In all cases where color is to be specified , it can be done
as a six-digit hexadecimal number that represents the red, green and blue components of the color. The first two digits indicate the red component, the next two specify the green component and the other two correspondto the blue component.

A value of 00 indicates that the component is completely off and FF indicates that the componet is fully on. Thus bright red is FF0000. Other colors are derived by mixing these three colors. Thus yellow is FFFF00, magenta is FF00FF. White is FFFFFF and black is 000000.

If all visited links are to be colored magenta then use

<BODY vlink="#FF00FF">

It is difficult to specify the hexadecimal values of many esoteric colors. You can go crazy adjusting the values of red, green and blue. So, browsers allow you to use certain standard color names. They vary from browser to browser.

Example : <BODY vlink="magenta">

Conclusion