Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Below is what I believe I was looking for, but I found a script that satisfied my need from the apple developer connection: http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/styles.html Thanks again, Simeon On 3/4/04 12:26 PM, "javascript-request at LaTech.edu" <javascript-request at LaTech.edu> wrote: > I'm not sure on what you're trying to do here, but you always have > document.getElementsByTagName('[TAGNAME]');, which returns an array > (nodelist) with all the [TAGNAME] elements in the document. To get the > body element, simply do > > var oBody = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]; > > Regards, > H