Interface HTMLBodyElement

All Superinterfaces:: Element, HTMLElement, Node

public interface HTMLBodyElement extends HTMLElement

The HTML document body. This element is always present in the DOM API, even if the tags are not present in the source document. See the BODY element definition in HTML 4.0.

Since:: 1.4, DOM Level 2

Field Summary

Fields declared in interface Node

ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`String`	`getALink()`	Color of active links (after mouse-button down, but before mouse-button up).
`String`	`getBackground()`	URI of the background texture tile image.
`String`	`getBgColor()`	Document background color.
`String`	`getLink()`	Color of links that are not active and unvisited.
`String`	`getText()`	Document text color.
`String`	`getVLink()`	Color of links that have been visited by the user.
`void`	`setALink(String aLink)`
`void`	`setBackground(String background)`
`void`	`setBgColor(String bgColor)`
`void`	`setLink(String link)`
`void`	`setText(String text)`
`void`	`setVLink(String vLink)`

Methods declared in interface Element

getAttribute, getAttributeNode, getAttributeNodeNS, getAttributeNS, getElementsByTagName, getElementsByTagNameNS, getSchemaTypeInfo, getTagName, hasAttribute, hasAttributeNS, removeAttribute, removeAttributeNode, removeAttributeNS, setAttribute, setAttributeNode, setAttributeNodeNS, setAttributeNS, setIdAttribute, setIdAttributeNode, setIdAttributeNS

Methods declared in interface HTMLElement

getClassName, getDir, getId, getLang, getTitle, setClassName, setDir, setId, setLang, setTitle

Methods declared in interface Node

appendChild, cloneNode, compareDocumentPosition, getAttributes, getBaseURI, getChildNodes, getFeature, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeName, getNodeType, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, getTextContent, getUserData, hasAttributes, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isDefaultNamespace, isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setNodeValue, setPrefix, setTextContent, setUserData

Method Details

getALink

String getALink()

Color of active links (after mouse-button down, but before mouse-button up). See the alink attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

setALink

void setALink(String aLink)

getBackground

String getBackground()

URI of the background texture tile image. See the background attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

setBackground

void setBackground(String background)

getBgColor

String getBgColor()

Document background color. See the bgcolor attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

setBgColor

void setBgColor(String bgColor)

getLink

String getLink()

Color of links that are not active and unvisited. See the link attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

setLink

void setLink(String link)

getText

String getText()

Document text color. See the text attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

setText

void setText(String text)

getVLink

String getVLink()

Color of links that have been visited by the user. See the vlink attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

setVLink

void setVLink(String vLink)

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