| Tags
and Attributes: |
Description: |
| <body>
. . . </body> |
All of the following tags can be used between <body> and </body>.
|
<body
bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
background="ripple.gif"
text="#000066"
link="#0000FF"
vlink="#0000aa"
alink="#FF9900" >
|
Under
the W3 HTML 3.2 Specification, the body tag supports the following
attributes:
- background
colors specified by the bgcolor attribute. Colors for the
various attributes can be specified by using either the hexadecimal
(#FF0000) or named (red) value of a color. In general it is recommended
that you use hexadecimal values.
- background
images specified by the background attribute. You can use
JPEG of GIF images as tiled backgrounds for you page. The syntax
for adding a background image is:
<body background="image name">
- text
colors for an entire document.
- link
colors refer to unfollowed hypertext links; default color is bright
blue;
- vlink
refers to links that have been previously visited by the browser;
default color is purple;
- alink
refers to an active link (when a mouse button is pressed to make
a connection); the default color is red.
|
| Font
Styles |
<b>bold</b>
|
bold |
Bold,
a physical style tag, is preferable to italic for screen displays. |
<strong>strong</strong>
|
strong |
Strong
is the logical style tag corresponding most frequently to bold. |
<i>italic</i>
|
italic |
Italic,
a physical style tag, does not display well on many computer monitors,
especially in smaller font sizes. It frequently runs into plain text
words or characters that follow. |
<em>emphasis</em>
|
emphasis |
Emphasis
is the logical style tag corresponding most frequently to italic |
<address>address</address>
|
address
|
Address
is a special logical
style tag often recommended for taglines, the portion often found
at the bottom of a page that identifies the page author/designer,
date of creation and/or update, and the page address. It most frequently
displays in italics, which, again, displays poorly. The end
of the tag automatically inserts a line break (carriage return) at
the end of the </address> tag. |
<tt>typewriter</tt>
|
typewriter |
Typewriter
is a physical style tag used to define monospaced typewriter (courier)
font that can be used for computer addresses, e.g., http://lrs.stcloudstate.edu.
Courier font or a similar monospace font is the default for most browsers;
this can be changed by a user to any font available on their machine,
so it may not display as desired. It is under utilized in page design. |
<samp>sample</samp>
|
sample |
Sample
is the logical style tag corresponding to typewriter, and is even
less often used. |
| Latest
additions to the HTML Specification. |
| <font
size="+3">font</font>
<font
size="2">font</font>
|
font
font
|
The
<font> tag allows you to change the size, color,
and face of a font. These following attributes can be used individually
of in conjunction with each other.
Size
- The different font sizes range from 1 (smallest) to 7 (largest).
The default size of text is 3. Text size can be set in one of three
ways:
- You can specify
a basefont size for an entire document.
<basefont size="4">
- You can specify
a size that is relative to the default size of 3 or the size set
by the basefont.
<font size="+1"> or <font size="-2">
- You can specify
an exact number from 1-7 for the font size.
<font size="7">
Color -
Just as you can do with background and link color you can also set
the font color.
Face
- This allows you to specify the exact font face you wish the user
to see. In order for this to work, the user must have the font loaded
on their system. If the specified font is not available, the default
text style will be used. In order to increase your odds of the user
having a specified font available on their system, list several
fonts (in order of preference) separated by commas.
<font
face="Arial", "Impact", "Palatino", "Helevetica">
|
| <font
color=#cc3299>Violet Red</font> |
Violet
Red |
| <font
face="Arial, Impact, Palatino, Helevetica">Font Faces</font> |
Font
Faces |
