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# Body

The body of a webpage

The children of the `body` element are rendered onto the webpage, so if we need any content to be visible to the user, place it inside the `body` element. So it is like the parent or root element of display elements.

{% code title="body\_example.html" %}

```markup
<body>
    <h1>I am a heading</h1>
    <p>I am a paragraph</p>
</body>
```

{% endcode %}

The `head` and `body` are crucial elements of a webpage. The metadata and visible content goes inside them, which are the most needed data for any webpage.