Add a custom class name to Wordpress body tag?

Question

I\'d like to place a directive in my theme\'s functions.php file which appends a classname to the wordpress body tag. Is there a built-in API method for this?

For exampl

Answer 1

You can also use it directly inside the WP body_class function which will append the string inside body class.

eg.

$class="custom-class";
>

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/body_class