HTMLBodyElement

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

TheHTMLBodyElement interface provides special properties (beyond those inherited from the regularHTMLElement interface) for manipulating<body> elements.

Instance properties

Inherits properties from its parent,HTMLElement.

HTMLBodyElement.aLinkDeprecated: A string that represents the color of active hyperlinks.
HTMLBodyElement.backgroundDeprecated: A string that represents the description of the location of the background image resource. Note that this is not a URI, though some older version of some browsers do expect it.
HTMLBodyElement.bgColorDeprecated: A string that represents the background color for the document.
HTMLBodyElement.linkDeprecated: A string that represents the color of unvisited links.
HTMLBodyElement.textDeprecated: A string that represents the foreground color of text.
HTMLBodyElement.vLinkDeprecated: A string that represents the color of visited links.

Instance methods

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

The followingWindowonXYZ event handler properties are also available as aliases targeting thewindow object. However, it is advised to listen to them on thewindow object directly rather than onHTMLBodyElement.

Note:UsingaddEventListener() onHTMLBodyElement will not work for theonXYZ event handlers listed below. Listen to the events on thewindow object instead.

HTMLBodyElement.onafterprint: Fired after the associated document has started printing or the print preview has been closed.
HTMLBodyElement.onbeforeprint: Fired when the associated document is about to be printed or previewed for printing.
HTMLBodyElement.onbeforeunload: Fired when the window, the document and its resources are about to be unloaded.
HTMLBodyElement.onblur: Fired when the window loses focus.
HTMLBodyElement.onerror: Fired when an error occurs and bubbles up to the window.
HTMLBodyElement.onfocus: Fired when the window gains focus.
HTMLBodyElement.ongamepadconnected: Fired when the browser detects that a gamepad has been connected or the first time a button/axis of the gamepad is used.
HTMLBodyElement.ongamepaddisconnected: Fired when the browser detects that a gamepad has been disconnected.
HTMLBodyElement.onhashchange: Fired when the fragment identifier of the URL has changed (the part of the URL beginning with and following the# symbol).
HTMLBodyElement.onlanguagechange: Fired when the user's preferred language changes.
HTMLBodyElement.onload: Fired when the document has finished loading.
HTMLBodyElement.onmessage: Fired when the window receives a message, for example from a call toWindow.postMessage() from another browsing context.
HTMLBodyElement.onmessageerror: Fired when the window receives a message that can't be deserialized.
HTMLBodyElement.onoffline: Fired when the browser has lost access to the network and the value ofNavigator.onLine switches tofalse.
HTMLBodyElement.ononline: Fired when the browser has gained access to the network and the value ofNavigator.onLine switches totrue.
HTMLBodyElement.onpagehide: Fired when the browser hides the current page in the process of presenting a different page from the session's history.
HTMLBodyElement.onpageshow: Fired when the browser displays the window's document due to navigation.
HTMLBodyElement.onpopstate: Fired when the active history entry changes while the user navigates the session history.
HTMLBodyElement.onrejectionhandled: Fired whenever a JavaScriptPromise is rejected and the rejection has been handled.
HTMLBodyElement.onresize: Fired when the document view has been resized.
HTMLBodyElement.onscroll: Fired when the document view or an element has been scrolled.
HTMLBodyElement.onstorage: Fired when a storage area (localStorage) has been modified in the context of another document.
HTMLBodyElement.onunhandledrejection: Fired whenever aPromise is rejected but the rejection was not handled.
HTMLBodyElement.onunload: Fired when the document is being unloaded.

Note that whileonblur,onerror,onfocus,onload,onresize, andonscroll are available on any element, their meanings on the<body> element are not the same as on other elements. They listen for events on thewindow object instead.