diff --git a/bin/htmlify_docs.pike b/bin/htmlify_docs.pike
index bd04cb12d142223ef42e5212f94dc15e39606955..14d35999156c6bed758d07abfc372d4ad2497646 100644
--- a/bin/htmlify_docs.pike
+++ b/bin/htmlify_docs.pike
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ string mkdocument(string s,string title)
 	  "<title>"+
 	  html_quote(title)+
 	  "</title>"+
-	  "<body bgcolor=\"#A0E0C0\">"+
+	  "<body bgcolor=\"#A0E0C0\" text=\"#000000\" link=blue vlink=purple>"+
 	  s+
 	  "</body>"+
 	  "</html>");