Add class to html with Javascript

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How do you add a class to the  lt html gt  root element using Javascript

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I d recommend that you take a look at jQuery   jQuery way      html   addClass  myClass

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document documentElement classList add  myCssClass      classList is supported since ie10  https   caniuse com  search classlist

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Like this   var root   document getElementsByTagName   html    0       0  to assign the first  and only  HTML  tag   root setAttribute   class    myCssClass       Or use this as your  setter  line to preserve any previously applied classes   thanks  ama2   root className      myCssClass     Or  depending on the required browser support  you can use the classList add   method   root classList add  myCssClass      https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web API Element classList http   caniuse com  feat classlist  UPDATE   A more elegant solution for referencing the HTML element might be this   var root   document documentElement  root className      myCssClass          or      root classList add  myCssClass

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With Jquery    You can add class to html elements like this       divclass   find  p h1 h2 h3 figure span a   addClass  nameclassorid     nameclassorid no point or   at the beginning

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You should append class not overwrite it   var headCSS   document getElementsByTagName  html   0  getAttribute  class          document getElementsByTagName  html   0  setAttribute  class  headCSS   foo      I would still recommend using jQuery to avoid browser incompatibilities

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This should also work   document documentElement className    myClass     Compatibility   Edit   IE 10 reckons it s readonly  yet     Opera works     I can also confirm it works in    Chrome 26 Firefox 19 02 Safari 5 1 7

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document getElementsByTagName  quot html quot   0  classList add  theme-dark    document getElementsByTagName  quot html quot   0  classList remove  theme-dark   document getElementsByTagName  quot html quot   0  classList toggle  theme-dark

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