Availability
DOM Level 1 HTML
Inherits from/Overrides
Node



Properties
deprecated String aLink
The value of
the alink attribute. Specifies the color of
"active" links; that is, the color of a link when the
mouse has been pressed over it but has not yet been released.
deprecated String background
The
value of the background attribute. Specifies the
URL of an image to use as a background texture for the document.
deprecated String bgColor
The value
of the bgcolor attribute. Specifies the background
color of the document.
deprecated String link
The value of
the link attribute. Specifies the normal color of
unvisited hyperlinks.
deprecated String text
The value of
the text attribute. Specifies the foreground color
(the color of text) for the document.
deprecated String vLink
The value of
the vlink attribute. Specifies the normal color of
"visited" hyperlinks that have already been followed.
Description
The HTMLBodyElement interface represents the
<body> tag of a document. All HTML documents
have a <body> tag, even if it does not
explicitly appear in the document source. You can obtain the
HTMLBodyElement of a document through the body
property of the HTMLDocument interface.
The properties of this object specify default colors and images for
the document. Although these properties represent the values of
<body> attributes, the Level 0 DOM made
these same values accessible through properties (with different
names) of the Document object. See the Document object in the
client-side reference section of this book for details.
Although these color and image properties belong more appropriately
to the HTMLBodyElement interface than they do to the Document object,
note that they are all deprecated because the HTML 4 standard
deprecates the <body> attributes that they
represent. The preferred way to specify colors and images for a
document is using CSS styles.
Example
document.body.text = "#ff0000";// Display text in bright red
document.fgColor = "#ff0000"; // Same thing using old DOM Level 0 API
document.body.style.color = "#ff0000"; // Same thing using CSS styles
See Also
Document object in the client-side reference section