What is a Body Tag in HTML

(HTML) Body Tag

<body> tag is the most important tag in any HTML document or webpage, the most useful content of the webpage is kept in the <body> tag only.

The <body> tag starts below the <head> tag and ends above the <footer> tag.

Syntax of <body> tag:

<body> “Content” </body>

How to write attributes in <body> tag:

<body attributename=”value”>
content
</body>

Attribute	Description	Example
bgcolor	You can add background color	bgcolor=”yellow”
alink	The <a> tag placed in the <body> can change the color of the link.	alink=”red”
background	You can add an image in the background of <body>	background=”logo.png”
link	You can set the color of the link (url) which the user has not visited.	link=”black”
vlink	You can set the color of the link (url) which the user has visited.	vlink=”blue”
text	You can set in what color all the text of <body> will appear.	text=”grey”
onload	JavaScript function to run when the page is loading.	onload=”myFunction()”
onunload	JavaScript function to run when the user leaves the page.	onunload=”leaveAlert()”
onfocus	To run a JavaScript function when <body> gets user’s focus.	onfocus=”inFocus()”
onblur	To run a JavaScript function when <body> is out of focus of the user.	onblur=”inFocusOut()”
onerror	JavaScript function to run when some error occurs in the HTML document.	onerror=”errorOccur()”
onresize	JavaScript function to run when the size of the webpage changes.	onresize=”pageResize()”

(HTML) Body Tag

A simple HTML document:

<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>

The <body> tag defines the document’s body.

The <body> element contains all the contents of an HTML document, such as headings, paragraphs, images, hyperlinks, tables, lists, etc.

Note: There can only be one <body> element in an HTML document.

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