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How To Set Parameters Within The <body> Tag

The <body> tag come just after the </head> tag within your HTML document (web page). The contents of your web page is displayed between the <body></body> tags. This includes everything that will be displayed when when your page viewed in a web browser.

You can set parameters within the <body> tag that will be used throughout your web page. It isn't necessary to set these parameters, as there is a default setting, but if you'd like your page to be displayed with colors other than the default, you can do it.

Note that this can also be done using cascading style sheets (CSS).

Setting the text color

Setting the background color

Using an image for a background

Setting the colors for links

"link" is the color of a link before it is selected.
"vlink" is the color of a link that has been visited.
"alink" is the color of a link that is curently selected (active).