HTMLBodyElement

The HTMLBodyElement interface provides special properties (beyond those of the regular HTMLElement interface they also inherit) for manipulating body elements.

Properties

Inherits properties from its parent, HTMLElement and from WindowEventHandlers.

HTMLBodyElement.aLink

Is a DOMString that represents the color of active hyperlinks.

HTMLBodyElement.background

Is a DOMString that represents the description of the location of the background image resource. Note that this is not an URI, though some older version of some browsers do expect it.

HTMLBodyElement.bgColor

Is a DOMString that represents the background color for the document.

HTMLBodyElement.link

Is a DOMString that represents the color of unvisited links.

HTMLBodyElement.text

Is a DOMString that represents the foreground color of text.

HTMLBodyElement.vLink

Is a DOMString that represents the color of visited links.

Methods

No specific methods; inherits methods from its parent, HTMLElement and from WindowEventHandlers.

Event handlers

No specific event handlers; inherits event handlers from its parent, HTMLElement and from WindowEventHandlers.

WindowEventHandlers.onafterprint

Is an EventHandler representing the code to be called when the afterprint event is raised.

WindowEventHandlers.onbeforeprint

Is an EventHandler representing the code to be called when the beforeprint event is raised.

WindowEventHandlers.onbeforeunload

Is an EventHandler representing the code to be called when the beforeunload event is raised.

WindowEventHandlers.onhashchange

Is an EventHandler representing the code to be called when the hashchange event is raised.

WindowEventHandlers.onlanguagechange

Is an EventHandler representing the code to be called when the languagechange event is raised.

WindowEventHandlers.onmessage

Is an EventHandler representing the code to be called when the message event is raised.

WindowEventHandlers.onoffline

Is an EventHandler representing the code to be called when the offline event is raised.

WindowEventHandlers.ononline

Is an EventHandler representing the code to be called when the online event is raised.

WindowEventHandlers.onpagehide

Is an EventHandler representing the code to be called when the pagehide event is raised.

WindowEventHandlers.onpageshow

Is an EventHandler representing the code to be called when the pageshow event is raised.

WindowEventHandlers.onpopstate

Is an EventHandler representing the code to be called when the popstate event is raised.

WindowEventHandlers.onrejectionhandled

An EventHandler representing the code executed when the rejectionhandled event is raised, indicating that a Promise was rejected and the rejection has been handled.

WindowEventHandlers.onresize

Is an EventHandler representing the code to be called when the resize event is raised.

WindowEventHandlers.onstorage

Is an EventHandler representing the code to be called when the storage event is raised.

WindowEventHandlers.onunhandledrejection

An EventHandler representing the code executed when the unhandledrejection event is raised, indicating that a Promise was rejected but the rejection was not handled.

WindowEventHandlers.onunload

Is an EventHandler representing the code to be called when the unload event is raised.

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
WHATWG HTML Living Standard The definition of 'HTMLBodyElement' in that specification.	Living Standard	Technically, the event-related properties onafterprint, onbeforeprint, onbeforeunload, onblur, onerror, onfocus, onhashchange, onlanguagechange, onload, onmessage, onoffline, ononline, onpopstate, onresize, onstorage, and onunload, have been moved to WindowEventHandlers. HTMLBodyElement implements this interface.
HTML5.1 The definition of 'HTMLBodyElement' in that specification.	Recommendation
HTML5 The definition of 'HTMLBodyElement' in that specification.	Recommendation	The following properties are now obsolete: aLink, bgColor, background, link, text, and vLink. The following properties have been added: onafterprint, onbeforeprint, onbeforeunload, onblur, onerror, onfocus, onhashchange, onload, onmessage, onoffline, ononline, onpopstate, onresize, onstorage, and onunload.
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification The definition of 'HTMLBodyElement' in that specification.	Recommendation	No change from Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification.
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification The definition of 'HTMLBodyElement' in that specification.	Recommendation	Initial definition.

Browser compatibility

[1] Firefox prior to Firefox 7.0 (and some older versions of Opera) returned a URI for the HTMLBodyElement.background attribute.

See also

• HTML element implementing this interface: <body>
• WindowEventHandlers