BODY Tag

The BODY tag contains all the text and graphics of the document with all the HTML tags that are used for control and formatting of the page.

The Format is:

<BODY>
	Your Document goes here
</BODY>

An HTML document, web page can be created using a text editor, Notepad or WordPad. All the HTML documents should have the extension .htm or .html. It requires a web browser like Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator/Communicator to view the document.

Attributes of <BODY> Tags

Attribute Name	Description	Possible value
bgcolor	to set the background of page	color name or hexadecimal color code Ex: #FF0000 for Red color
background	to set the background image in page	url or path
topmargin	to define the margin from top of web page	pixel (px) or in percentage (%)
leftmargin	to define the margin from left of web page in updated browser it work for both left & right margin	pixel (px) or in percentage (%)
text	to set the text color of page	color name or color code in hexadecimal
link	to set the color of link text	color name or color code in hexadecimal
vlink	to set the color visited link	color name or color code in hexadecimal
alink	to set the color of active link	color name or color code in hexadecimal

BGCOLOR: used to set the background color for the document

Example:

<BODY BGCOLOR="yellow">
	Your document text goes here.
</BODY>

TEXT: used to set the color of the text of the document

Example:

<BODY TEXT="red"> 
	Document text changed to red color 
</BODY>

LEFTMARGIN: set the left hand margin of the document

Example:

<BODY LEFTMARGIN="60">
	This document is indented 60 pixels from 
the left hand side of the page.
</BODY>

TOPMARGIN: set the left hand margin of the document

Example:

<BODY TOPMARGIN="60"> 
	This document is indented 60 pixels from the top of the page. 
</BODY>

BACKGROUND: It is used to point to an image file (the files with an extension .gif, .jpeg) that will be used as the background of the document. The image file will be tiled across the document.

Example:

<BODY BACKGROUND="filename.gif">
	Your document text goes here
</BODY>

LINK: to set the color of link text. the default color of link is blue.

<BODY LINK="RED">
	<a href="https://programmingtrick.com"> Infomax Academy</a>
</BODY>

VLINK : to set the color of visited link. The default color for visited link is purple.

<BODY VLINK="GREEN">
	<a href="https://programmingtrick.com"> Infomax Academy</a>
</BODY>

ALINK : to set the color of active link i.e. when we click on a link.

<BODY ALINK="YELLOW">
	<a href="https://programmingtrick.com"> Infomax Academy</a>
</BODY>

Lab Assignment

Qus. 1 : What i s the correct HTML for adding a background color?

<background>yellow<Background>
<body color = yellow>
<body bgcolor = yellow>
<body bg =yellow>

Qus. 2 : How to insert a background image in HTML?

<body background = "img.png">
<img background = "img.png">
<bg-image = "img.png">
None of the above

Qus. 3 : The BODY tag is usually used after

HTML tag
HEAD tag
TITLE tag
EM tag

Qus. 4 : Which one is valid attribute of <body> tag

color
text
font
image

Qus. 5 : which one is invalid attribute of <body> tag

bgcolor
text
color
background

Qus. 6 : Which One is the valid color code for RED in Hexadecimal color scheme

#FFFFFF
#000000
#FF0000
#00FF00

Qus. 7 : Which attribute is used to set background color of html page?

bgcolor
background
back color
None of the above

Qus. 8 : Which tag is used to add a horizontal rule (line) in HTML

<hr>
<br>
<line>
<divider>

Qus. 9 : Which attribute is used to change the thickness of line in <hr> tag

width
size
thickness
weight

Programs

HTML code to display country name in red color

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