HTML Attribute for <BODY ...>
BGCOLOR =color expression

Usage Recommendation
Use it, but don't rely on it.

BGCOLOR sets the background color of the web page. For example, to set the background color of a page to a light-yellow, use:

This Code Makes This 
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC" 
 TEXT=BLACK 
 LINK=BLUE
 VLINK=PURPLE
 ALINK=RED
 >
this page

When you set any of the colors for a web page, set all of them. Otherwise there is no assurance that the colors you set will show up against the defaults you didn't set.

<BODY BACKGROUND="..."> >