Let me ask you a question. How would you normally define the main elements of your website?
Like This?
<body bgcolor=”#FFFFFF” link=”#0000FF” vlink=”#800080″ alink=”#FF0000″ font face=”Arial, Helvetica, Sans Serif” size=”+2″ color=”#000000″>
OR – Like This:
<body>
The first example is the “old-fashioned” HTML – WYSIWYG way of defining how the main elements of the body will display on a web page.
The second example is how the HTML would appear if you “styled your body (tag)” in a Style Sheet.
OK – How does the browser know what to display, based on an opening <body> tag like that?
In the <head> of your document you add this:
<style type=”text/css”> and follow with this
</style>
So, there’s the basic style for the <body> tag for the content of your web page. No bulky redundant code!
Style and Smile!
Claire Poulton
