Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

content — NN n/a IE 4 DOM 1

Synopsis

Read/Write

The equivalent of the “value” of a name/value pair. The property’s corresponding CONTENT attribute is usually accompanied by either a NAME or HTTP-EQUIV attribute, either of which act as the “name” portion of the name/value pair. Specific values of the CONTENT attribute vary with the value of the NAME or HTTP-EQUIV attribute. Sometimes the CONTENT attribute value contains multiple values. In such cases, the values are delimited by a semicolon. Some of these multiple values may be name/value pairs in their own right, such as the content for a refresh META element. The first value is a number representing the number of seconds of delay before loading another document; the second value is a name/value pair indicating a URL of the document to load after the delay expires.

Changing the content property on a loaded document may not produce the desired effect if the browser relies on the incoming value as the document loads.

Example

document.all.refreshMeta.content ="5,http://www.giantco.com/basicindex.html"

Value

Any string of characters.

Default

None.