JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition

Name

Node — a node in a document tree

Availability

DOM Level 1 Core

Subinterfaces

Attr, CharacterData, Document, DocumentFragment, DocumentType, Element, Entity, EntityReference, Notation, ProcessingInstruction

Also Implements

EventTarget

If the DOM implementation supports the Events module, every node in the document tree also implements the EventTarget interface and may have event listeners registered on it. The methods defined by the EventTarget interface are not included here; see the “EventTarget” and EventListener reference pages for details.

Constants

All Node objects implement one of the subinterfaces listed above. Every Node object has a nodeType property that specifies which of the subinterfaces it implements. These constants are the legal values for that property; their names are self-explanatory. Note that these are static properties of the Node( ) constructor function; they are not properties of individual Node objects. Also note that they are not supported by Internet Explorer 4, 5, or 6.

Node.ELEMENT_NODE = 1; // Element Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE = 2; // Attr Node.TEXT_NODE = 3; // Text Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE = 4; // CDATASection Node.ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE = 5; // EntityReference Node.ENTITY_NODE = 6; // Entity Node.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE = 7; // ProcessingInstruction Node.COMMENT_NODE = 8; // Comment Node.DOCUMENT_NODE = 9; // Document Node.DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE = 10; // DocumentType Node.DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE = 11; // DocumentFragment Node.NOTATION_NODE = 12; // Notation ...