HTML DOM element object
HTML DOM node
HTML DOM (Document Object Model) in each node things are:
- The document itself is a document object
- All HTML elements are an element node
- All HTML attributes are attribute nodes
- HTML elements are inserted into the text of the text node
- Comments are comment nodes
Element object
In the HTML DOM, the element object represents an HTML element.
Children of the element objects may be, can be an element node, text nodes, comment nodes.
NodeList object represents a node list, similar to the HTML element child nodes collection.
Elements can have attributes. Property belonging to attribute node (see the next section).
Browser Support
All major browsers support element object and NodeList object. .
Properties and Methods
The above properties and methods that apply to all HTML elements:
| Property / Method | description |
|---|---|
| element .accessKey | Sets or returns an element accesskey |
| element .addEventListener () | Add an event handler to a specified element |
| element .appendChild () | Adding a new element to the child element |
| element .attributes | It returns an array of attributes of an element |
| element .childNodes | Returns an array of elements in a child node |
| element .classlist | Returns the class name of the element, as DOMTokenList object. |
| element .className | Sets or returns the class attribute of the element |
| element .clientHeight | Returns the content on the page visible height (not including borders, margins, or scrollbars) |
| element .clientWidth | Returns the contents of the page visible in width (not including borders, margins, or scrollbars) |
| element .cloneNode () | Cloning an element |
| element .compareDocumentPosition () | Document Location to compare two elements. |
| element .contentEditable | Sets or returns whether the element's content editable |
| element .dir | Sets or returns an element in the direction of the text |
| element .firstChild | Returns the element's first child |
| element .focus () | Set document or element gain focus |
| element .getAttribute () | Returns the specified element's attribute values |
| element .getAttributeNode () | Returns the specified attribute node |
| element .getElementsByTagName () | Returns the tag name of a collection of all child elements. |
| element. getElementsByClassName () | Returns all elements in the document specify the class name of the collection, as NodeList object. |
| element .getFeature () | Returns the specified characteristics of the object to perform APIs. |
| element .getUserData () | Return an object associated with the key element. |
| element .hasAttribute () | If the specified property exists element returns true, otherwise it returns false. |
| element .hasAttributes () | If there is any element property returns true, otherwise it returns false. |
| element .hasChildNodes () | Returns whether an element has any children element |
| element .hasfocus () | Returns a Boolean value, detecting whether the document or element gain focus |
| element .id | Sets or returns id of the element. |
| element .innerHTML | Sets or returns the contents of the element. |
| element .insertBefore () | Insert a new child element before the existing child element |
| element .isContentEditable | If the element content editable returns true, false otherwise |
| element .isDefaultNamespace () | If the namespaceURI returns true, otherwise it returns false. |
| element .isEqualNode () | Check the two elements are equal |
| element .isSameNode () | Check the two elements all have the same node. |
| element .isSupported () | If supported features specified in the element returns true. |
| element .lang | Sets or returns the language of an element. |
| element .lastChild | Last child element returned |
| element .namespaceURI | Returns the URI namespace. |
| element .nextSibling | Followed by a return of that element |
| element .nodeName | Returns the tag name of the element (uppercase) |
| element .nodeType | Returns the node type of element |
| element .nodeValue | Returns the value of the element node |
| element .normalize () | So this has become a "normal" form where only structure (eg, elements, comments, processing instructions, CDATA sections, and entity references) spaced Text nodes, ie, the elements (including property) all text nodes below, are neither adjacent text nodes nor empty text nodes |
| element .offsetHeight | Return an element of any height, including the border and filling, but not the margin |
| element .offsetWidth | Returns the width of the element, including borders and padding, but not margins |
| element .offsetLeft | Returns the current element of a relative horizontal offset position offset container |
| element .offsetParent | Returns the offset container element |
| element .offsetTop | Returns the current element relative vertical offset of offset container |
| element .ownerDocument | Returns the element of the root element (document object) |
| element .parentNode | Returns the parent node of an element |
| element .previousSibling | Returns an element immediately preceding element |
| element .querySelector () | Return match the specified CSS selector element is the first child element |
| document.querySelectorAll () | Returns the specified CSS selector matches the element node list of all the sub-elements |
| element .removeAttribute () | Removes the specified attribute from the element |
| element .removeAttributeNode () | Removes the specified attribute node and returns the node removal after. |
| element .removeChild () | To delete a sub-element |
| element .removeEventListener () | Remove the handle by the addEventListener () method to add an event |
| element .replaceChild () | Replace a child element |
| element .scrollHeight | Returns the height of the entire element (including with hidden place of the scroll bar) |
| element .scrollLeft | Returns from the current view of the actual elements of the left edge and the left edge |
| element .scrollTop | Back from the top edge and a top view of the actual elements of the edge between the current |
| element .scrollWidth | Returns the element's entire width (including with hidden place of the scroll bar) |
| element .setAttribute () | Set or change the specified properties and the specified value. |
| element .setAttributeNode () | Set or change the specified attribute node. |
| element .setIdAttribute () | |
| element .setIdAttributeNode () | |
| element .setUserData () | In the element associated with the specified key object. |
| element .style | Sets or returns the style attribute of the element |
| element .tabIndex | Sets or returns the tab order of the elements. |
| element .tagName | As a string tag name of an element (uppercase) |
| element .textContent | Sets or returns a node and its text content |
| element .title | Sets or returns the title attribute of the element |
| element .toString () | An element into a string |
| nodelist .item () | Returns the index of an element in the document tree based |
| nodelist .length | Returns the number of nodes in the node list. |