The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition

Document

The document of a window holds all the HTML elements of the web page in that window.

Properties

alinkColor	FF, IE 3	Color of a link when you click it
anchors[]	FF, IE 3	Read-only: Array of anchor objects. See "Anchor" on page 413 for more information.
applets[]	FF, IE 3	Read-only: Array storing the applets in the document. See "Applet" on page 413 for more information.
bgColor	FF, IE 3	Background color of a page. The value can be the name of a color or a hexadecimal triplet.

Example:

window.document.bgColor = "#000000";

This line makes the background of a page black.

body	FF, IE 4	Body element of a web page
cookie	FF, IE 3	HTML cookie associated with this document. See Chapter 12 for more information on cookies.
documentElement	FF, IE 5	Read-only: Root element ...