The <html>
element can be referred through the document.documentElement
property. In general, the root element of any document can be referred through .documentElement
.
document.documentElement.style.background = '';
Note: .style.background
returns the value for background
as an inline style property. That is, defined using <html style="background:..">
. If you want to get the calculated style property, use getComputedStyle
:
var style = window.getComputedStyle(document.documentElement);
var bgColor = style.backgroundColor;