The **`<body>` tag** in HTML contains the renderable content of the document. The `<body>` tag encloses everything visible to the users, which includes paragraphs, headings, links, etc.

# Syntax
The following figure describes the syntax of the `<body>` tag:

>Note: There can only be one body element per document.

>Note: The above attributes are obsolete in HTML5 but can be used in style sheets.

# Examples
The following code demonstrates the use of the `<body>` tag:
*  The `<head>` tag contains the metadata of the document, which is the document's title in our example.
* The `<body>` tag follows the `<head>` tag and contains the `<h1>` and `<p>` tags.
*  The `<h1>` tag is used to write headings, and the `<p>` tag is used to write paragraphs.


<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
  </head>

  <body>
    <h1>This document belongs to Eductive.io</h1>
    <p>This document explains how to use the body tag.</p>
  </body>
</html>

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How to use the body element in HTML

The  tag in HTML contains the renderable content of the document. The  tag encloses everything visible to the users, which includes paragraphs, headings, links, etc. 

Attribute	Description
`text`	sets the color for the displayed text
`link`	sets the color of the text for the unvisited links
`alink`	sets the color of the text for the links when the mouse hovers over them
`vlink`	sets the color of the text for the visited links
`bgcolor`	sets the background color of the element
`background`	sets the background as the image whose URL is provided to the `background` attribute

Event	Description
`onafterprint`	calls a function after the user prints a document
`onbeforeprint`	calls a function after the user requests to print a document
`onbeforeunload`	calls a function when the document is about to be closed
`onhaschange`	calls a function when the fragment identifier of the document’s URL changes
`onlanguagechange`	calls a function when the preferred language of the user changes
`onmessage`	calls a function when the document receives a message
`onmessageerror`	calls a function when a message cannot be deserialized
`onoffline`	calls a function when the document loses the network connection
`ononline`	calls a function when the document reestablished the network connection
`onpopstate`	calls a function when a change in the session history of the document occurs
`onunload`	calls a function when the document begins to close

How to use the body element in HTML

Syntax

Attributes

Events

Examples