HTML <body> Tag
The main content of an HTML document is defined inside the HTML <body> tag. Only the content inside the HTML <body> tag is meant to be displayed on the browser. The content can vary from simple text to paragraphs, headings, images, tables, links, videos, etc. It is placed after the <head> tag or between </head> and </html> tags. In an HTML document, the <body> tag is used only once and is required for every HTML document.
Syntax:
<body>content</body>
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Example</title> </head> <body> Hello World!! </body> </html>
Explanation:
In the above example, we have displayed an HTML document with some basic tags.
Tag specific Attributes:
| Attribute | Value | Uses | HTML5 |
| alink | color | To specify the color of the active link in a document. | Not supported in HTML 5. |
| background | URL | To specify the background image of the document. | Not supported in HTML 5. |
| bgcolor | color | To specify the background color of the content. | Not supported in HTML 5. |
| link | color | To specify the color of the unvisited link. | Not supported in HTML 5. |
| text | color | To specify the color of the text in the document. | Not supported in HTML 5. |
| vlink | color | To specify the color of the visited link. | Not supported in HTML 5. |
| onload | To call a function on page loading. | Supported in HTML 5. | |
| onunload | To call a function when the user leaves the page. | Supported in HTML 5 | |
| onfocus | To call a function when the document receives focus from the user. | Supported in HTML 5 | |
| onblur | To call a function when a document loses focus by the user. | Supported in HTML 5 |
Global Attributes:
All the Global attributes are supported by the HTML <body> tag.
Event Attributes:
All the Event attributes are supported by the HTML <body> tag.
Supporting Browsers:
Chrome, IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari.