Name
Element
Description
The Element object represents an HTML element or tag. IE 4 and later, DOM-compliant browsers such as IE 5 and later, and Netscape 6 and later allow access to every element of a document. They also define the properties and methods listed here on each of those elements. Unfortunately, the methods and properties defined by the IE 4 DOM are not the same as the methods and properties defined by the W3C DOM standard. Because of this incompatibility, they are grouped separately in the following lists.
W3C DOM Properties
In web browsers that support the W3C DOM, all elements in an
HTML document have properties that correspond to their HTML
attributes, including such universal attributes such as dir
, id
,
lang
, and title
. When an HTML attribute name consists
of multiple words, the corresponding JavaScript property name uses
mixed case. Otherwise the JavaScript property is in lowercase (e.g.,
id
and href
, but tagIndex
and accessKey
). Two HTML attributes have names
that are reserved words in JavaScript or Java, and special property
names are required. JavaScript uses the property className
to refer to the class
attribute of all HTML tags and uses
htmlFor
to refer to the for
attribute of <label>
and <script>
tags. In addition to their
HTML attributes, all elements define the following properties.
Remember also that in DOM-compliant browsers, all HTML elements
inherit the properties of the Node object.
className
The string value of the
class
attribute of the element, which ...
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