BODY Element | body Object

Specifies the beginning and end of the document body.

When you use the !DOCTYPE declaration to specify standards-compliant mode, this object no longer represents the entire surface onto which a document's contents can be rendered. The object can obtain its size from its content, or you can set its size explicitly—like a div object.

Remarks

As of Internet Explorer 6, when you use the !DOCTYPE declaration to specify standards-compliant mode, the body object can obtain its size from its content, or you can set its size explicitly—like a div object, for example. In standards-compliant mode, the html element represents the entire surface onto which a document's contents can be rendered. When the !DOCTYPE declaration does not specify standards-compliant mode, and with earler versions of Internet Explorer, the body object represents the entire surface onto which a document's contents can be rendered. The size of the body object cannot be changed and is equal to the size of the window. Margins you set on this object are rendered inside the border and scrollbars of the object.

You can access the body element from script through the document object.

The window object for the body element can host event handlers for the onblur , onfocus , onload , or onunload events.

This element is available in HTML as of Internet Explorer 3.0, and in script as of Internet Explorer 4.0.

This element is a block element.

This element requires a closing tag.

Example

This example exposes the body element in script.

var oBody = document. body ;

Standards Information

This object is defined in HTML 3.2 and is defined in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 .

Applies To

[ Object Name ] Platform Version

Win16:
Win32:
Windows CE:
Unix:
Mac:

document

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