Document: body property - Web APIs | MDN (original) (raw)
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The Document.body property represents the or node of the current document, ornull if no such element exists.
Value
Examples
// Given this HTML: <body id="oldBodyElement"></body>
alert(document.body.id); // "oldBodyElement"
const aNewBodyElement = document.createElement("body");
aNewBodyElement.id = "newBodyElement";
document.body = aNewBodyElement;
alert(document.body.id); // "newBodyElement"
Notes
document.body is the element that contains the content for the document. In documents with <body> contents, returns the<body> element, and in frameset documents, this returns the outermost<frameset> element.
Though the body property is settable, setting a new body on a document will effectively remove all the current children of the existing<body> element.
Specifications
| Specification |
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| HTML Standard # dom-document-body-dev |
Browser compatibility
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