Name

background — NN n/a IE 4 DOM 1

Synopsis

Read/Write

URL of the background image for the entire document. If you set a bgColor to the element as well, the color appears if the image fails to load; otherwise, the image overlays the color.

Example

document.body.background = "images/watermark.jpg"

Value

Complete or relative URL to the background image file.

Default

None.

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