HTML - bgcolor

bgcolor code

the bgcolor attribute of BODY tag specifies the color of the whole document. Also, XHTML 1.1 the attribute 'bgcolor' is not permitted for the tag.

<html>
<head>
<title>Hello World</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor = "yellow">
    Hello World!!!!
</body>
</html>

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This sets the text colour of the text within body tag. In XHTML 1.1 the attribute 'text' is not permitted for the tag.

<html>

<head>
<title>Hello World</title>
</head>

<body text="red">

Hello World!!!!

</body>

</html>

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