body Element
Description
The body element encapsulates the content of an HTML document
,while the head element encapsulates metadata and document information.
The body element always follows the head element so
that it is the second child of the html element.
Obsolete
The body element's attributes from HTML4:
alink, background, bgcolor, link, margintop, marginbottom,
marginleft, marginrightm, marginwidth, text,
and vlink,
are obsolete.
The effect that these attributes had can be achieved with CSS.
Example
The following code shows the body element in use.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is a test</p>
<a href="http://java2s.com">Visit java2s.com</a>
</body><!--from ww w. j a v a 2s .c o m-->
</html>
One p element and one a
element are added to the body element.