DOM Objects
DOM Anchor
DOM Applet
DOM Area
DOM Base
DOM Basefont
DOM Body
DOM Button
DOM Checkbox
DOM Document
DOM Event
DOM FileUpload
DOM Form
DOM Frame
DOM Frameset
DOM Hidden
DOM History
DOM Iframe
DOM Image
DOM Link
DOM Location
DOM Meta
DOM Navigator
DOM Option
DOM Password
DOM Radio
DOM Reset
DOM Screen
DOM Select
DOM Style
DOM Submit
DOM Table
DOM TableData
DOM TableHeader
DOM TableRow
DOM Text
DOM Textarea
DOM Window

Body Object

The Body object represents the body of the document (the HTML body).

The Body object's properties are described below:

N: Netscape (including Mozilla when N6 or higher), IE: Internet Explorer, W3C: World Wide Web Consortium (Internet Standard)

Properties

Syntax: object.property_name

Property Description N IE  W3C
accessKey Sets or returns the keyboard key to access the body object   5 No
aLink Sets or returns the color of active links in the document 6 5 Yes
background Sets or returns the URL of the background image of the document 6 5 Yes
bgColor Sets or returns the background color of the document 6 5 Yes
id Sets or returns the id of the body (In IE 4 this property is read-only)   4 No
link Sets or returns the color of links in the document 6 5 Yes
scrollLeft Sets or returns the distance between the left edge of the body and the leftmost portion of the content visible in the window 7 5 No
scrollTop Sets or returns the distance between the top edge of the body and the topmost portion of the content visible in the window 7 5 No
text Sets or returns the color of text in the document 6 5 Yes
vLink Sets or returns the color of visited links in the document 6 5 Yes