BODY

This contains the document body. Both start and end tags for BODY may be omitted. The body can contain a wide range of elements:

The key attributes are: BACKGROUND, BGCOLOR, TEXT, LINK, VLINK and ALINK. These can be used to set a repeating background image, plus background and foreground colors for normal text and hypertext links.

Example:

 <body bgcolor=white text=black link=red vlink=maroon alink=fuchsia>
bgcolor
Specifies the background color for the document body. See below for the syntax of color values.
text
Specifies the color used to stroke the document's text. This is generally used when you have changed the background color with the BGCOLOR or BACKGROUND attributes.
link
Specifies the color used to stroke the text for unvisited hypertext links.
vlink
Specifies the color used to stroke the text for visited hypertext links.
alink
Specifies the highlight color used to stroke the text for hypertext links at the moment the user clicks on the link.
background
Specifies a URL for an image that will be used to tile the document background.

Colors are given in the sRGB color space as hexadecimal numbers (e.g. COLOR="#C0FFC0"), or as one of 16 widely understood color names. These colors were originally picked as being the standard 16 colors supported with the Windows VGA palette.