HTMLBodyElement

« 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 method; inherits methods from its parent, HTMLElement and from WindowEventHandlers.

Event handlers

No specific event handler; 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.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.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 moving to the `WindowEventHandlers` interface, and `HTMLBodyElement` implements this interface.
HTML5 The definition of 'HTMLBodyElement' in that specification.	Candidate 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.

Feature	Chrome	Firefox (Gecko)	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari (WebKit)
Basic support	1.0	1.0 (1.7 or earlier) [1]	4.0	(Yes) [1]	(Yes)
`onXYZ` event handlers	(Yes)	(Yes)	?	?	?
`onlanguage`	?	32 (32)	?	?	?

Feature	Android	Firefox Mobile (Gecko)	IE Phone	Opera Mobile	Safari Mobile
Basic support	(Yes)	1.0 (1.0)	(Yes)	(Yes)	(Yes)
`onXYZ` event handlers	(Yes)	(Yes)	?	?	?
`onlangugage`	?	32.0 (32)	?	?	?

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