Document: bgColor property

The deprecated bgColor property gets or sets the background color of the current document.

Value

A string representing the color as a word (e.g., "red") or hexadecimal value (e.g., "#ff0000").

When set to the null value, that null value is converted to the empty string (""), so document.bgColor = null is equivalent to document.bgColor = "".

Examples

document.bgColor = "darkblue";

Notes

The default value for this property in Firefox is white (#ffffff in hexadecimal).

document.bgColor is deprecated in the HTML specification. The recommended alternative is use of the CSS style background-color which can be accessed through the DOM with document.body.style.backgroundColor.

Specifications

Browser compatibility