Deprecated
This feature is no longer recommended. Though some browsers might still support it, it may have already been removed from the relevant web standards, may be in the process of being dropped, or may only be kept for compatibility purposes. Avoid using it, and update existing code if possible; see the compatibility table at the bottom of this page to guide your decision. Be aware that this feature may cease to work at any time.
The deprecated bgColor
property gets or sets the background color of the current document.
Syntax
color = document.bgColor document.bgColor =color
Parameters
color
is a string representing the color as a word (e.g., "red") or hexadecimal value (e.g., "#ff0000
").
Example
document.bgColor = "darkblue";
Notes
The default value for this property in Firefox is white (#ffffff
in hexadecimal).
document.bgColor
is deprecated in DOM Level 2 HTML. The recommended alternative is use of the CSS style background-color
which can be accessed through the DOM with document.body.style.backgroundColor
. Another alternative is document.body.bgColor
, although this is also deprecated in HTML 4.01 in favor of the CSS alternative.
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table on this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
bgColor | Chrome
Full support
64
| Edge Full support 12 | Firefox Full support Yes | IE ? | Opera Full support Yes | Safari Full support Yes | WebView Android
Full support
64
| Chrome Android
Full support
64
| Firefox Android Full support Yes | Opera Android Full support Yes | Safari iOS Full support Yes | Samsung Internet Android
Full support
9.0
|
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- Compatibility unknown
- Compatibility unknown
- Non-standard. Expect poor cross-browser support.
- Non-standard. Expect poor cross-browser support.
- Deprecated. Not for use in new websites.
- Deprecated. Not for use in new websites.
- See implementation notes.
- See implementation notes.