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Body
Basic usage:
`<body> ... </body>`
Spec version	2.0
Example output:
This page

The <body></body> element surrounds all of a page's content that will actually be rendered on the web page. It is possible to specify a background color or image for the page by using the proper CSS property.

Example code Edit

To apply this in an HTML document, use:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>The title</title>
        Head content
    </head>
    <body>
        Body content
    </body>
</html>

Attributes Edit

As of HTML 4.0, all presentational attributes on the body are deprected in favor of CSS.^[1]^[2]

Global HTML attributes
HTML 4 & 5: onload, onunload
Deprecated in HTML 4: background, text, link, vlink, alink
HTML 5 only: onafterprint, onbeforeprint, onbeforeunload, onblur, onerror, onfocus, onhashchange, onmessage, onoffline, ononline, onpagehide, onpageshow, onpopstate, onredo, onresize, onscroll, onstorage, onundo

Rendering Edit

Most graphical web browsers add an 8 pixel margin around the body contents.

Typical CSS representation:

body {
    display: block;
    margin: 8px;
}

Coding rules Edit

The <body> element is the second element inside the <html> element. (The <head> element is the first one.) Inside the <body> element, only elements from the Flow content category are allowed. The <body> element itself belongs to the Sectioning root category.

Both the start and end tags are optional. The <body> element is automatically generated when the tags are not used.

References Edit

External linksEdit

[HTML4-attrs-0] ttp://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#edef-BODY

[HTML.25-attrs-1] ttp://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-body-element-0

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