Color

This document has navy blue text (TEXT="#191970") on a light blue background (BGCOLOR="#b0e0e6"). These and other attributes (LINK, VLINK, and ALINK) are defined in the <BODY> tag. For example, the tag
<BODY BGCOLOR="#b0e0e6" 
      TEXT="#191970" 
      LINK="#aa0055" 
      VLINK="#661599">
calls for navy blue text on a light blue background, with red links and purple visited links. (Note: The ALINK attribute is the least important of the color attributes and is often omitted.)

Instead of a background color, the designer may specify a background image. For example, the tag

<BODY BGCOLOR="#b0e0e6" 
      BACKGROUND="texture.gif"
      TEXT="#191970" 
      LINK="#aa0055" 
      VLINK="#661599">
loads a GIF image called "texture.gif", which is tiled across the window background.

Tip: Always specify a BGCOLOR attribute. It's not needed if a BACKGROUND image is used, but if the link to the BACKGROUND image is broken or the client browser has images turned off, the BGCOLOR attribute will rescue your page.