BODY

The "body" tag is the most important tag next to the HTML tag. It must encompass EVERYTHING that you want to have viewed in your web page. Anything that you can see on the scrollable screen needs to have a single <body> tag before it and a </body> tag after it. Each HTML file can have only 1 <body> tag!

There are a large number of parameters that can be used with the body tag. Here are some of the most common:

<body bgcolor="white"> The bgcolor attribute assigns a background color to the page. In this case white has been selected and must be in quotes. Hex colors can also be selected using the format
< body bgcolor="#ffffff">
The advantage to using a hex colour code is that you have 16.7 million colour possibilities! (using colour names only gives 128 distinct colours. If you want to use a specific colour name, you can find them listed at this link:

<body background="name.gif"> The background attribute assigns a background image to the page. By default, background images are always tiled to fill the screen. A trick to produce a color band along one edge of the browser is to produce a long thin graphic (like below) and load it using the background tag so it is tiled. This graphic is 1300 x 10 pixels and is less than 3k in size! Click here to see how it looks when loaded as a background.

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