Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

document — NN 2 IE 3 DOM 1

Synopsis

The document object represents both the content viewed in the browser window or frame and the other content of the HTML file loaded into the window or frame. Thus, all information from the HEAD portion of the file is also part of the document object. All references to elements must include a reference to the document object. The document object has no name other than its hard-wired object name: document.

Object Model Reference

NN

[window.]document

IE

[window.]document

Properties

activeElement	charset	expando	location	selection
alinkColor	cookie	fgColor	parentWindow	title
bgColor	defaultCharset	lastModified	readyState	URL
body	domain	linkColor	referrer	vlinkColor

Methods

captureEvents( )	getSelection( )	queryCommandText( )
clear( )	handleEvent( )	queryCommandValue( )
close( )	open( )	releaseEvents( )
createElement( )	queryCommandEnabled( )	routeEvent( )
createStyleSheet( )	queryCommandIndterm( )	write( )
elementFromPoint( )	queryCommandState( )	writeln( )
execCommand( )	queryCommandSupported( )

Collections/Arrays

all[]	children[]	forms[]	images[]	scripts[]
anchors[]	embeds[]	frames[]	links[]	styleSheets[]
applets[]	filters[]	ids[]	plugins[]	tags[]
classes[]

Event Handler Properties

Handler	NN	IE	DOM
onafterupdate	n/a	4	n/a
onbeforeupdate	n/a	4	n/a
onclick	n/a ...