Sets or retrieves the background picture tiled behind the text and graphics on the page.
Syntax
| HTML | <BODY BACKGROUND
= sURL... >
|
|---|
| Scripting | [ sURL = ] BODY.background |
|---|
Possible Values
| sURL | String that
specifies or receives the URL of the file to use as the background picture for the page. |
The property is read/write.
The property has no default value.
Expressions can be used in place of the preceding value(s), as of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5. For more information, see About Dynamic Properties.
Remarks
In Internet Explorer in IE8 mode, the background property returns the fully-qualified URL to the image file. In prior versions, this property returns only what the author specified in the HTML source.
This property is deprecated in favor of the background-image attribute of CSS.
Standards Information
This property is deprecated in
HTML 
and
is defined in
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 .
Applies To
See Also
backgroundImage
