Changing background color with CSS and HTML

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Hi,

I'm trying to change the background color of my site with the click of a menu button. I've got the code to work for a Div however it wont let me access body.

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<div id="test">
<a href="#" onclick="document.getElementById('body').style.background = '#238902'" />GREEN</a></li>
</div>

It simply throws up the error 'Object required' and links the URL.
Any suggestions?

Posted 14-Jan-12 2:48am

WurmInfinity

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The answer by jinxster is not accurate, background property is not correctly spelled.

You need to do something like this:

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document.body.style.backgroundColor = 'red';

—SA

Posted 14-Jan-12 9:16am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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WurmInfinity 14-Jan-12 15:17pm

Actually no his did work, and for some reason when your applying the style in that manner you simply declare the base word. For example if you wish to change font size you do style.font as opposed to font-size. Thanks anyway.

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jinxster · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-14T06:28:00

Solution 1

Try this:

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<div id="test">
<a href="#" onclick="document.body.style.background = '#238902'" />GREEN</a></li>
</div>

Edit: Body is not an element unless you decide to put an ID='body' in the <body> tag.

Posted 14-Jan-12 6:28am

jinxster

Updated 14-Jan-12 6:29am

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WurmInfinity 14-Jan-12 12:30pm

to obvious eh... THANKS :D

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Jan-12 15:18pm

Did you test it? Think again... :-)
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Jan-12 15:18pm

Please, you need to test your solutions before posting an answer, otherwise you waste members' time. It does not work. Please see my answer for a correction.
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WurmInfinity 14-Jan-12 15:19pm

See my reply to yours. His does work.

jinxster 14-Jan-12 20:52pm

I like to set the base word because if you decide to add an image then you can just add url(../images/image.png) in front without creating a new line.