Pure JavaScript

document.layers

JavaScript 1.2+ Nav4+ Syntax

document.layers
document.layers[index]

Description

The layers property is an array that contains all the objects that appear within the HTML document from using the <layer> tag. The layers property has one property of its own, called length, which contains the number of items in the array. The index number ranges from zero to the length.

Example

The code in Listing 7.141 creates two layers and then displays their names at the bottom of the page using the layers[] array.

Listing 7.141 Accessing Layer Objects Using the layers[] Array

<html> <layer name="Layer1" PAGEX=50 PAGEY=50 width=100 height=100 bgcolor="blue">Layer 1</layer> <layer name="Layer2" PAGEX=150 PAGEY=150 width=100 height=100 ...