Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

A — NN n/a IE 4 DOM 1

Synopsis

The A object reflects the A element, regardless of whether the element is set up to be an anchor, link, or both. Navigator and Internet Explorer both treat this object as a member of the links[] and/or anchors[] arrays of a document. Internet Explorer 4 also lets you reference the object as a member of the document.all[] collection (array of all HTML elements).

HTML Equivalent

<A>

Object Model Reference

NN

[window.]document.links[i]

[window.]document.anchors[i]

IE

[window.]document.links[i]

[window.]document.anchors[i]

[window.]document.all. elementID

Properties

accessKey	id	nameProp	parentTextEdit	search
className	innerHTML	offsetHeight	pathname	sourceIndex
dataFld	innerText	offsetLeft	port	style
dataSrc	isTextEdit	offsetParent	protocol	tabIndex
document	lang	offsetTop	protocolLong	tagName
hash	language	offsetWidth	recordNumber	target
host	Methods	outerHTML	rel	title
hostname	mimeType	outerText	rev	urn
href	name	parentElement

Methods

blur( )	getAttribute( )	removeAttribute( )
click( )	insertAdjacentHTML( )	scrollIntoView( )
contains( )	insertAdjacentText( )	setAttribute( )
focus( )

Collections/Arrays

all[]

children[]

filters[]

Event Handler Properties

Handler	NN	IE	DOM
onblur	n/a	4	n/a
onclick	2	3	n/a
ondblclick	4	4	n/a
onfocus	n/a	4	n/a
onhelp	n/a	4