= MSIE 6 for
windows 
= Netscape 6.2
or higher 
= Opera 7 or
higher| DOM level 2 Attributes | |||
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| = MSIE 6 for
windows = Netscape 6.2
or higher = Opera 7 or
higher |
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| Attribute | General syntax and example | Description and/or explanation | Support |
| attributes | x.attributes.item(1) x.attributes["align"] |
Returns in a NamedNodeMap object a collection of all possible attributes of node x in no particular order. Returns the 2nd attribute object of node x. Returns the attribute node align from node x. | |
| caption | x.caption |
Gets the caption object of node x which must be a table element. | |
| cells | x.cells | Returns an HTMLCollection of all <td> nodes of node x which must be a table row | |
| cellIndex | x.cellIndex | Returns the index (in the row) of node x which must be a <td> or a <th> The index of this cell in the row, starting from 0. This index is in document tree order and not display order. | |
| cellPadding | x.cellPadding x.cellPadding = "6" |
Gets or sets the cellpadding attribute of a node which must be a table. | |
| cellSpacing | x.cellSpacing x.cellSpacing = "6" |
Gets or sets the cellspacing attribute of a node which must be a table. The rules attribute must not be defined and border-collapse:separate must be the actual declaration | |
| childNodes | x.childNodes[4] | Returns a NodeList object that contains all children of such node. Returns the 5th node of node x. | |
| className | x.className x.className="newClassName" |
Gets or sets the class attribute of element x. | |
| data | x.data x.data="new text" |
Gets or set the character data of node x that implements the CharacterData interface. Equivalent to nodeValue only if the node is of type TEXT_NODE | |
| documentElement | x = document.documentElement.scrollHeight | This is a convenience attribute that allows direct access to the child node that is the root element of the document. For HTML documents, this is the element with the tagName "HTML". | |
| doctype | document.doctype.systemId | The Document Type Declaration (DTD) associated with a document. The doctype declaration is in the prologue of the document. | |
| firstChild | x.firstChild | The first child of node x. | |
| frame | x.frame x.frame = "above" |
Gets or sets the external table borders to render. Possible values: void, box, border, above, below, hsides (horizontal sides), lhs (left hand side), rhs (right hand side), vsides (vertical sides). | |
| id | x.id x.id="newIdValue" |
Gets or set the id attribute value of the HTML element | |
| implementation | document.implementation | The DOMImplementation object that handles the document | |
| lastChild | x.lastChild | The last child of node x. | |
| name | x.name | Gets or sets the name value attribute of node x. | |
| nextSibling | x.nextSibling | The node immediately following node x | |
| nodeName | x.nodeName | The name of node x, depending on its type. If node x is of type TEXT_NODE, then the nodeName returns #text otherwise it returns the name of the HTML element or the name of the attribute. | |
| nodeType | x.nodeType | 1 is an HTML element 2 is an attribute 3 is a text node One convenient way to avoid memorizing these numbers is to use constants such as ELEMENT_NODE, ATTRIBUTE_NODE and TEXT_NODE. Only Mozilla supports these constants. |
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| nodeValue | x.nodeValue x.nodeValue x.nodeValue = "New value" |
Gets or sets the value of node x, depending on its type | |
| offsetParent | x.offsetParent | The offsetParent is the parent node acting as the positioning parent of node x. Often it is the closest (in the document hierarchy) absolutely positioned containing block of a node. This is a DHTML object model property and is very useful for defining offsetLeft, offsetTop DHTML properties of elements. | |
| ownerDocument | x.ownerDocument | The Document object associated with node x. This is also the Document object used to create new nodes. | |
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