JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition

Name

MutationEvent — details about a document change

Availability

DOM Level 2 Events

Inherits from/Overrides

Event → MutationEvent

Constants

The following constants represent the set of possible values for the attrChange property:

unsigned short MODIFICATION = 1

An Attr node was modified.

unsigned short ADDITION = 2

An Attr node was added.

unsigned short REMOVAL = 3

An Attr node was removed.

Properties

readonly unsigned short attrChange

How the attribute was changed, for DOMAttrModified events. The three possible values are defined in the “Constants” section.

readonly String attrName

The name of the attribute that was changed for DOMAttrModified events.

readonly String newValue

The new value of the Attr node for DOMAttrModified events, or the new text value of a Text, Comment, CDATASection, or ProcessingInstruction node for DOMCharacterDataModified events.

readonly String prevValue

The previous value of an Attr node for DOMAttrModified events, or the previous value of a Text, Comment, CDATASection, or ProcessingInstruction node for DOMCharacterDataModified events.

readonly Node relatedNode

The relevant Attr node for DOMAttrModified events, or the parent of the node that was inserted or removed for DOMNodeInserted and DOMNodeRemoved events.

Methods

initMutationEvent( )

Initializes the properties of a newly created MutationEvent object.

Description

This interface defines the type of Event object that is passed to events of types listed here (note that none of these event types ...