<body>: The Document Body element
The <body>
HTML element represents the content of an HTML document. There can be only one <body>
element in a document.
Content categories | Sectioning root. |
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Permitted content | Flow content. |
Tag omission |
The start tag may be omitted if the first thing inside it is not a space
character, comment, <script> element or
<style> element. The end tag may be omitted if
the <body> element has contents or has a start tag,
and is not immediately followed by a comment.
|
Permitted parents |
It must be the second element of an <html>
element.
|
Implicit ARIA role | generic |
Permitted ARIA roles | No role permitted |
DOM interface | HTMLBodyElement
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Attributes
This element includes the global attributes.
alink
Deprecated-
Color of text for hyperlinks when selected. Do not use this attribute! Use the CSS
color
property in conjunction with the:active
pseudo-class instead. background
Deprecated-
URI of an image to use as a background. Do not use this attribute! Use the CSS
background
property on the element instead. bgcolor
Deprecated-
Background color for the document. Do not use this attribute! Use the CSS
background-color
property on the element instead. bottommargin
Deprecated-
The margin of the bottom of the body. Do not use this attribute! Use the CSS
margin-bottom
property on the element instead. leftmargin
Deprecated-
The margin of the left of the body. Do not use this attribute! Use the CSS
margin-left
property on the element instead. link
Deprecated-
Color of text for unvisited hypertext links. Do not use this attribute! Use the CSS
color
property in conjunction with the:link
pseudo-class instead. onafterprint
-
Function to call after the user has printed the document.
onbeforeprint
-
Function to call when the user requests printing of the document.
onbeforeunload
-
Function to call when the document is about to be unloaded.
onblur
-
Function to call when the document loses focus.
onerror
-
Function to call when the document fails to load properly.
onfocus
-
Function to call when the document receives focus.
onhashchange
-
Function to call when the fragment identifier part (starting with the hash (
'#'
) character) of the document's current address has changed. onlanguagechange
-
Function to call when the preferred languages changed.
onload
-
Function to call when the document has finished loading.
onmessage
-
Function to call when the document has received a message.
onoffline
-
Function to call when network communication has failed.
ononline
-
Function to call when network communication has been restored.
onpopstate
-
Function to call when the user has navigated session history.
onredo
-
Function to call when the user has moved forward in undo transaction history.
onresize
-
Function to call when the document has been resized.
onstorage
-
Function to call when the storage area has changed.
onundo
-
Function to call when the user has moved backward in undo transaction history.
onunload
-
Function to call when the document is going away.
rightmargin
Deprecated-
The margin of the right of the body. Do not use this attribute! Use the CSS
margin-right
property on the element instead. text
Deprecated-
Foreground color of text. Do not use this attribute! Use CSS
color
property on the element instead. topmargin
Deprecated-
The margin of the top of the body. Do not use this attribute! Use the CSS
margin-top
property on the element instead. vlink
Deprecated-
Color of text for visited hypertext links. Do not use this attribute! Use the CSS
color
property in conjunction with the:visited
pseudo-class instead.
Examples
html
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Document title</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
The <code><body></code> HTML element represents the content of an
HTML document. There can be only one <code><body></code> element in
a document.
</p>
</body>
</html>
Result
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML Standard # the-body-element |
Browser compatibility
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