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If you forget to choose colors and sizes in your code, then your page will use the Browser's Defaults.
This means that a person viewing your site will have color and size based on what their computer picks.

Here are typical defaults:

Body:
The bgcolor default is White.
The text color default is Black.
The link default color is Blue.
The vlink default color is Purple.

Images:
The default height and width are equal to the normal size of the image.
Or you can specify the height and width of your images:

    <img src="images/webstartthelp.png" height="160" width="390">

On the website, your image is stretched or compressed to fit these dimensions.

Fonts:
The default fonts are chosen by the browser.
This can cause your text to change sizes and spacing.
Be sure to check how your pages look in various browsers.

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Tags Inside Tags

Many HTML tags have an opening tag and closing tag with text in between.
Instead of text you can have more tags inside those tags.

<body bgcolor="white" text="#676767"> <a href="http://www.google.com"> <img src="http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif" /> Click here to go to Google! </a> hidden message.. oooo Did you see it?</body>

Note that every tag is inside the body tags, so everything here is part of the body of the page.
Note that everything between the A tags is a link, even the image.
Note that the font color will override the text and link colors which were defined earlier, and affects only what is inside.

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