IHTMLBodyElement interface

Provides access to the body element, and specifies the beginning and the end of the document body.

Members

The IHTMLBodyElement interface inherits from the IDispatch interface. IHTMLBodyElement also has these types of members:

The IHTMLBodyElement interface has these methods.

Method	Description
createTextRange	Creates a TextRange object for the element.

The IHTMLBodyElement interface has these properties.

Property	Description
aLink	Sets or gets the color of all active links in the element.
background	Sets or retrieves the background picture tiled behind the text and graphics on the page.
bgColor	Deprecated. Sets or retrieves the background color behind the object.
bgProperties	Sets or gets the properties of the background picture.
bottomMargin	Sets or gets the bottom margin of the entire body of the document.
leftMargin	Sets or gets the left margin for the entire body of the document, which overrides the default margin.
link	Sets or gets the color of the document links for the object.
noWrap	Sets or retrieves whether the browser automatically performs wordwrap.
onload	Sets or retrieves a pointer to the event handler function associated with the HTMLFrameSiteEvents::onload event. The HTMLFrameSiteEvents::onload event occurs immediately after the browser loads the object.
rightMargin	Sets or gets the right margin for the entire body of the document.
scroll	Sets or gets a value that indicates whether the scroll bars are turned on or off.
text	Sets or gets the text (foreground) color for the document body.
topMargin	Sets or gets the margin for the top of the document.
vLink	Sets or gets the color of links in the object that have already been visited.

The methods that act on the IHTMLBodyElement interface enable you to control the behavior and characteristics of the body element.

Use the IHTMLDocument2::body method to get a pointer to the IHTMLBodyElement interface for a body element of the document.

The body element is a block element.