Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 12:55:15 -0500
From: "Michael O'Keefe",
michael.okeefe@lmc.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Research Canada
G'day,
If you are going to use any of the attributes to the <BODY> tag, then
you should supply all of the attributes, even if you supply just the
default values.
The default <BODY> tag for Netscape, Mosaic and MSIE is
<BODY BGCOLOR=#C0C0C0 TEXT=#000000 LINK=#0000FF VLINK=#0020F0
ALINK=#FF0000>
If you wish to slip the BACKGROUND attribute in there, by all means
continue to do so, but for completeness (and good HTML designing) you
should supply the other attributes as well.
The reason? You don't know what colors the user has set, and whether
just setting a BACKGROUND image, or just a few of the colors will
render the page viewable or not. By supplying all of the values, even
at their defaults, you ensure that everything contrasts accordingly
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