diff --git a/Sources/Elementary/HtmlDocument.swift b/Sources/Elementary/HtmlDocument.swift
index a28c69b..afc1684 100644
--- a/Sources/Elementary/HtmlDocument.swift
+++ b/Sources/Elementary/HtmlDocument.swift
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ public protocol HTMLDocument: HTML {
     /// By default this attribute is not set.
     var lang: String { get }
 
+    /// Attributes for the body tag.
+    var bodyAttributes: [HTMLAttribute<HTMLTag.body>] { get }
+
     /// The text directionality (`ltr`, `rtl`, `auto`) of the HTML document.
     ///
     /// By default this attribute is not set.
@@ -52,6 +55,8 @@ public extension HTMLDocument {
     var lang: String { defaultUndefinedLanguage }
     /// The default value for the `dir` property is an empty string and will not be rendered in the HTML.
     var dir: HTMLAttributeValue.Direction { .init(value: defaultUndefinedDirection) }
+    /// The default value for the `bodyAttribute` property is an empty array.
+    var bodyAttributes: [HTMLAttribute<HTMLTag.body>] { [] }
 }
 
 // NOTE: this is a bit messy after the renaming of var content to var body
@@ -92,7 +97,7 @@ public extension HTMLDocument {
                 Elementary.title { self.title }
                 self.head
             }
-            Elementary.body { self.body }
+            Elementary.body(attributes: self.bodyAttributes) { self.body }
         }
         .attributes(.lang(lang), when: lang != defaultUndefinedLanguage)
         .attributes(.dir(dir), when: dir.value != defaultUndefinedDirection)
diff --git a/Tests/ElementaryTests/CompositionRenderingTest.swift b/Tests/ElementaryTests/CompositionRenderingTest.swift
index 7e38301..cf5dce4 100644
--- a/Tests/ElementaryTests/CompositionRenderingTest.swift
+++ b/Tests/ElementaryTests/CompositionRenderingTest.swift
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ final class CompositionRenderingTests: XCTestCase {
     func testRendersADocument() async throws {
         try await HTMLAssertEqual(
             MyPage(text: "my text"),
-            #"<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><title>Foo</title><meta name="author" content="Me"><meta name="description" content="Test page"></head><body><div><h1>Hello, world!</h1><p>my text</p></div></body></html>"#
+            #"<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><title>Foo</title><meta name="author" content="Me"><meta name="description" content="Test page"></head><body class="my-class" id="42"><div><h1>Hello, world!</h1><p>my text</p></div></body></html>"#
         )
     }
 
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ struct MyPage: HTMLDocument {
 
     var title = "Foo"
     var lang = "en"
+    var bodyAttributes: [HTMLAttribute<HTMLTag.body>] = [.class("my-class"), .id("42")]
 
     var head: some HTML {
         meta(.name(.author), .content("Me"))
