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Chapter 16. Essential XHTML > <body>—The Document's Body
<body>—The Document's Body
The document's body is where the action is—the content that the document is designed to contain, that is. The <body> element is supported in XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Transitional, and XHTML 1.1. Here are this element's attributes:
alink— Deprecated in HTML 4.0 (you use styles instead now). Sets the color of hyperlinks when they're being activated. (XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Frameset.)
background— Deprecated in HTML 4.0. Holds the URI of an image to be used in tiling the browser's background. (XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Frameset.)
bgcolor— Deprecated in HTML 4.0 (you use styles instead now). Sets the color of the browser's background. (XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Frameset.)
class— Gives the style class of the element. (XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Frameset, XHTML 1.1.)
dir— Sets the direction of text that doesn't have an inherent direction in which you should read it, called directionally neutral text. You can set this attribute to LTR, for left-to-right text, or RTL, for right-to-left text. (XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Frameset, XHTML 1.1.)
id— Refers to the element; set this attribute to a unique identifier. (XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Frameset, XHTML 1.1.)
lang— Specifies the base language used in the element. Applies only when the document is interpreted as HTML. (XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Frameset, XHTML 1.1.)
link— Deprecated in HTML 4.0 (you use styles now). Sets the color of hyperlinks that have not yet been visited. (XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Frameset.)
style— Set to an inline style to specify how the browser should display the element. (XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Frameset, XHTML 1.1.)
text— Deprecated in HTML 4.0. Sets the color of the text in the document. (XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Frameset.)
title— Contains the title of the body (which might be displayed in ToolTips). (XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Frameset, XHTML 1.1.)
vlink— Deprecated in HTML 4.0 (you use styles instead now). Sets the color of hyperlinks that have been visited already. (XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Frameset.)
xml:lang— Specifies the base language for the element when the document is interpreted as an XML document. (XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Frameset, XHTML 1.1.)
