Name
HTMLDocument.open( ) — begin a new document, erasing the current one
Availability
DOM Level 1 HTML
Synopsis
void open( );
Description
This method erases the current HTML document and begins a new one,
which may be written to with the write( ) and
writeln( ) methods. After calling open( ) to begin a new document and write( )
to specify document content, you must always remember to call
close( ) to end the document and force its content
to be displayed.
This method should not be called by a script or event handler that is part of the document being overwritten, since the script or handler will itself be overwritten.
See Document.open( ) in the client-side reference
section, but note that this standardized version of that method can
be used only to create new HTML documents and does not accept the
optional mimetype argument that the Level
version does.
Example
var w = window.open(""); // Open a new window
var d = w.document; // Get its HTMLDocument object
d.open(); // Open the document for writing
d.write("<h1>Hello world</h1>"); // Output some HTML to the document
d.close(); // End the document and display itSee Also
HTMLDocument.close( ), HTMLDocument.write( ); Document.open( ) in the client-side reference section