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text attribute | text property

Sets or gets the text (foreground) color for the document body.

Syntax

HTML	`<element text="p" ... >`
JavaScript	`p = object.text`

Property values

Type: Variant

any of the color names or values in the Color Table.

Standards information

Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification, Section 2.5.5
HTML 4.01 Specification, Section 7.5.1 (Deprecated)

Remarks

Some browsers do not recognize color names, but all browsers should recognize RGB color values and display them correctly.

Examples

This example uses the text property to change the text color of the body.

Code example: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/text.htm


<body id="oBody">
: 
<button onmouseover="oBody.text='green'">GREEN</button>
<button onmouseover="oBody.text='red'">RED</button>
<button onmouseover="oBody.text='blue'">BLUE</button>

</body>

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