JavaScript Pocket Reference

Client-side JavaScript

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IE 4 DOM

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Version 4 extended the leg-

acy DOM with powerful new features for accessing and

modifying all content of a document. These features were

never standardized, but some of them are supported in

non-Microsoft browsers.

The following sections explain each of these DOMs in more

detail and describe how you can use them to access and

modify document content.

The Legacy DOM

The original client-side JavaScript DOM defines provides

access to document content through properties of the Docu-

ment object. Several read-only properties, such as

title, URL,

and

lastModified provide information about the document

as a whole. See the reference section for further details on

these and all Document properties and methods. Other

properties are arrays that refer to specific types of document

content:

forms[]

An array of Form objects representing the forms in a

document.

images[]

An array of Image objects representing the images that

appear in a document.

applets[]

An array of objects that represent the Java applets

embedded in a document. JavaScript can actually be

used to script Java and control these applets, but doing

so is beyond the scope of this pocket reference.

links[]

An array of Link objects representing the hyperlinks in

the document.

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