SoftwareEngineering/ProgramLanguage/DHTML
Property | Description |
activeElement | Retrieves the object that has the focus when the parent document has focus. |
alinkColor | Sets or retrieves the color of all active links in the document. |
bgColor | Deprecated. Sets or retrieves a value that indicates the background color behind the object. |
charset | Sets or retrieves the character set used to encode the object. |
compatMode | Retrieves a value that indicates whether standards-compliant mode is switched on for the object. |
cookie | Sets or retrieves the string value of a cookie. |
defaultCharset | Retrieves the default character set from the current regional language settings. |
designMode | Sets or retrieves a value that indicates whether the document can be edited. |
dir | Sets or retrieves a value that indicates the reading order of the object. |
doctype | Retrieves the document type declaration associated with the current document. |
documentElement | Retrieves a reference to the root node of the document. |
domain | Sets or retrieves the security domain of the document. |
expando | Sets or retrieves a value indicating whether arbitrary variables can be created within the object. |
fgColor | Sets or retrieves the foreground (text) color of the document. |
fileCreatedDate | Retrieves the date the file was created. |
fileModifiedDate | Retrieves the date the file was last modified. |
fileSize | Retrieves the file size. |
implementation | Retrieves the implementation object of the current document. |
lastModified | Retrieves the date the page was last modified, if the page supplies one. |
linkColor | Sets or retrieves the color of the document links. |
parentWindow | Retrieves a reference to the container object of the window. |
protocol | Sets or retrieves the protocol portion of a URL. |
readyState | Retrieves a value that indicates the current state of the object. |
referrer | Retrieves the URL of the location that referred the user to the current page. |
uniqueID | Retrieves an autogenerated, unique identifier for the object. |
URL | Sets or retrieves the URL for the current document. |
URLUnencoded | Retrieves the URL for the document, stripped of any character encoding. |
vlinkColor | Sets or retrieves the color of the links that the user has visited. |
XMLDocument | Retrieves a reference to the XML |
XSLDocument | Retrieves a reference to the top-level node of the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) document. |
Collection | Description |
all | Returns a reference to the collection of elements contained by the object. |
anchors | Retrieves a collection of all a objects that have a name and/or id property. Objects in this collection are in HTML source order. |
applets | Retrieves a collection of all applet objects in the document. |
childNodes | Retrieves a collection of HTML Elements and TextNode objects that are direct descendants of the specified object. |
embeds | Retrieves a collection of all embed objects in the document. |
forms | Retrieves a collection, in source order, of all form objects in the document. |
frames | Retrieves a collection of all window objects defined by the given document or defined by the document associated with the given window. |
images | Retrieves a collection, in source order, of img objects in the document. |
links | Retrieves a collection of all a objects that specify the HREF property and all area objects in the document. |
namespaces | Retrieves a collection of namespace objects. |
scripts | Retrieves a collection of all script objects in the document. |
styleSheets | Retrieves a collection of styleSheet objects representing the style sheets that correspond to each instance of a link or style object in the document. |
Event | Description |
onactivate | Fires when the object is set as the active element. |
onbeforeactivate | Fires immediately before the object is set as the active element. |
onbeforecut | Fires on the source object before the selection is deleted from the document. |
onbeforedeactivate | Fires immediately before the activeElement is changed from the current object to another object in the parent document. |
onbeforeeditfocus | Fires before an object contained in an editable element enters a UI-activated state or when an editable container object is control selected. |
onbeforepaste | Fires on the target object before the selection is pasted from the system clipboard to the document. |
onclick | Fires when the user clicks the left mouse button on the object. |
oncontextmenu | Fires when the user clicks the right mouse button in the client area, opening the context menu. |
oncontrolselect | Fires when the user is about to make a control selection of the object. |
oncut | Fires on the source element when the object or selection is removed from the document and added to the system clipboard. |
ondblclick | Fires when the user double-clicks the object. |
ondeactivate | Fires when the activeElement is changed from the current object to another object in the parent document. |
ondrag | Fires on the source object continuously during a drag operation. |
ondragend | Fires on the source object when the user releases the mouse at the close of a drag operation. |
ondragenter | Fires on the target element when the user drags the object to a valid drop target. |
ondragleave | Fires on the target object when the user moves the mouse out of a valid drop target during a drag operation. |
ondragover | Fires on the target element continuously while the user drags the object over a valid drop target. |
ondragstart | Fires on the source object when the user starts to drag a text selection or selected object. |
ondrop | Fires on the target object when the mouse button is released during a drag-and-drop operation. |
onfocusin | Fires for an element just prior to setting focus on that element. |
onfocusout | Fires for the current element with focus immediately after moving focus to another element. |
onhelp | Fires when the user presses the F1 key while the browser is the active window. |
onkeydown | Fires when the user presses a key. |
onkeypress | Fires when the user presses an alphanumeric key. |
onkeyup | Fires when the user releases a key. |
onmousedown | Fires when the user clicks the object with either mouse button. |
onmousemove | Fires when the user moves the mouse over the object. |
onmouseout | Fires when the user moves the mouse pointer outside the boundaries of the object. |
onmouseover | Fires when the user moves the mouse pointer into the object. |
onmouseup | Fires when the user releases a mouse button while the mouse is over the object. |
onmousewheel | Fires when the wheel button is rotated. |
onmove | Fires when the object moves. |
onmoveend | Fires when the object stops moving. |
onmovestart | Fires when the object starts to move. |
onpaste | Fires on the target object when the user pastes data, transferring the data from the system clipboard to the document. |
onpropertychange | Fires when a property changes on the object. |
onreadystatechange | Fires when the state of the object has changed. |
onresizeend | Fires when the user finishes changing the dimensions of the object in a control selection. |
onresizestart | Fires when the user begins to change the dimensions of the object in a control selection. |
onselectionchange | Fires when the selection state of a document changes. |
onstop | Fires when the user clicks the Stop button or leaves the Web page. |
Method Description |
attachEvent Binds the specified function to an event, so that the function gets called whenever the event fires on the object. |
clear Not currently supported. |
close Closes an output stream and forces the sent data to display. |
createAttribute Creates an attribute object with a specified name. |
createComment Creates a comment object with the specified data. |
createDocumentFragment Creates a new document. |
createElement Creates an instance of the element for the specified tag. |
createEventObject Generates an event object for passing event context information when using the fireEvent method. |
createStyleSheet Creates a style sheet for the document. |
createTextNode Creates a text string from the specified value. |
detachEvent Unbinds the specified function from the event, so that the function stops receiving notifications when the event fires. |
elementFromPoint Returns the element for the specified x and y coordinates. |
execCommand Executes a command on the current document, current selection, or the given range. |
focus Causes the element to receive the focus and executes the code specified by the onfocus event. |
getElementById Returns a reference to the first object with the specified value of the ID attribute. |
getElementsByName Retrieves a collection of objects based on the value of the NAME attribute. |
getElementsByTagName Retrieves a collection of objects based on the specified element name. |
hasFocus Retrieves the value indicating whether the object currently has focus. |
mergeAttributes Copies all read/write attributes to the specified element. |
open Opens a new window and loads a document specified by a given URL. This method can also be used to open a new window which uses the url and name parameters to collect the output of the write and writeln methods. |
queryCommandEnabled Returns a Boolean value that indicates whether a specified command can be successfully executed using execCommand, given the current state of the document. |
queryCommandIndeterm Returns a Boolean value that indicates whether the specified command is in the indeterminate state. |
queryCommandState Returns a Boolean value that indicates the current state of the command. |
queryCommandSupported Returns a Boolean value that indicates whether the current command is supported on the current range. |
queryCommandValue Returns the current value of the document, range, or current selection for the given command. |
recalc Recalculates all dynamic properties in the current document. |
releaseCapture Removes mouse capture from the object in the current document. |
setActive Sets the object as active without setting focus to the object. |
write Writes one or more HTML expressions to a document in the specified window. |
writeln Writes one or more HTML expressions, followed by a carriage return, to a document in the specified window. |
Element | Object | Description |
BODY | body | Specifies the beginning and end of the document body. |
implementation | Contains information about the modules supported by the object. | |
location | Contains information about the current URL. | |
selection | Represents the active selection, which is a highlighted block of text, and/or other elements in the document on which a user or a script can carry out some action. | |
TITLE | title | Contains the title of the document. |