JavaScript Pocket Reference

Element

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JavaScript Pocket Reference

inserted into a document tree, it is not the DocumentFragment

node itself that is inserted, but the children of the DocumentFrag-

ment. This makes DocumentFragment useful as a temporary

placeholder for nodes you want to insert, all at once, into a

document.

See Also

Document.createDocumentFragment()

Element

an HTML tag in a document

DOM Level 1, IE 4

Inherits From: Node (in DOM Level 1)

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 docu-

ment. They also define the properties and methods listed here on

each of those elements. Unfortunately, the methods and proper-

ties 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