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DOM example: body

document.body returns the HTML document's <body> element. 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html;charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
  <title>document.body</title>

<script type="text/JavaScript">

function main() { try {
   var bodyElement = document.body;

   var table = document.getElementById('table');

   var rows = table.rows;

   for (var r=0; r<rows.length; r++) {

     var cells = rows[r].cells;

     var key  = cells[0].innerHTML;
     cells[0].innerHTML = key + ':';


     cells[1].innerHTML = bodyElement[key];
   }


 } catch(e) {alert (e);}
}

</script>

</head>
<body onload='main();'>
  
  <code>document.documentElement</code> gets the root element.

  <table id='table'>
    <tr><td>tagName</td><td></td></tr>
    <tr><td>nodeName</td><td></td></tr>
    <tr><td>localName</td><td></td></tr>
  </table>

</body>
</html>
Github repository about-Document-Object-Model, path: /Node/Document/body.html

See also

The document object.
document.documentElement returns the root element, which is the <html> element for HTML documents.
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