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text attribute (body)

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Specifies the color of the text in the document body.

This attribute is deprecated. Use the color style property of the body element instead.

JavaScript page for this attribute: text. You can find other example(s) there.

Possible values:

A legal color value. It can be a hexadecimal, RGB or predefined color value. For more information, see the page for colors.

Default: this attribute has no default value.

This example illustrates the use of the text attribute:

<body text="red">
    The color of the text is red.
</body>

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<body style="color:#FF0000;">
    The color of the text is red.
</body>

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