<body>

Place your content within your "body" tags. CSS has made most of the attributes for this tag obsolete, however, browsers continue to recognize them.

Attribute Description
alink Set the color of active links on the entire page. Use a numeric, hexidecimal, or named value.
class Classify or name your elements. For instance, if you classify several paragraph elements the same name, using CSS it is possible to give them all the same styles in one line of code.
background Use local URLs or Web URLs.
bgcolor Add background colors to elements within your HTML document. Use a numeric, hexidecimal, or named color of your choice.
id Specify an ID for your elements.
lang Define the language to display your element in. Here's a link to the abbreviations of languages. http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/iso639a.html
link Set the color for unvisited links on your site. Use a numeric, hexidecimal, or named value.
style Used to create inline styles such as CSS.
text Apply a color to text within an element. Use a numeric, hexidecimal, or named value.
title Places a "pop-up" title for an element upon mouse over. Similar to "help" pop-ups in word programs.
vlink Sets the color of visted links of the element.

Code:

<body bgcolor="aqua"> <br />
<table bgcolor="aqua"><tr><td><p>Such code will set the background of a body to an aqua color.</p></tr></td></table>

Display:


Such code will set the background of a body to an aqua color.