HyperText Markup Language

The Body Section

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">...</BODY>

These tags are used to mark the body section of the HTML document. Items between the <BODY> and </BODY> are displayed in the WWW browser's display window. Anything outside these tags normally is not displayed.

The following attributes were introduced in HTML 3.2 for use with the body tag. It should be noted that these attributes have been deprecated in HTML 4.01 - strict version. While they may still be used, LC Web masters should be investigating the use of Style Sheets for this purpose:

BACKGROUND="URL for an Image File"
Used to point to the location of an image (GIF or JPEG), which is used as the (tiled) background of the document. Not recommended because it often obscures readability.

BGCOLOR="#RRGGBB"
Used to set the background color for a document using RGB codes or any of the 16 standard VGA color names (see table below). It is recommended that on Library of Congress pages, the background be set to white ( BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" ):

**Color names and RGB values**
	Black = "#000000"		Green = "#008000"
	Silver = "#C0C0C0"		Lime = "#00FF00"
	Gray = "#808080"		Olive = "#808000"
	White = "#FFFFFF"		Yellow = "#FFFF00"
	Maroon = "#800000"		Navy = "#000080"
	Red = "#FF0000"		Blue = "#0000FF"
	Purple = "#800080"		Teal = "#008080"
	Fuchsia = "#FF00FF"		Aqua = "#00FFFF"

TEXT="#RRGGBB", LINK="#RRGGBB", VLINK="#RRGGBB", ALINK="#RRGGBB"
Used to set the color for Normal text (TEXT=), Link text (LINK=), Visited link text (VLINK=) and Active link text (ALINK=) using RGB codes.