Javascript Reference - HTML DOM Document Objects
The document object is the root node of the HTML document and the "owner" of all other nodes.
The document is a part of the window object and can be accessed as window.document.
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Document Object Properties and Methods
The following properties and methods can be used on HTML documents.
| Property / Method | Description |
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| document.addEventListener() | Add an event handler to the document |
| document.adoptNode(node) | Get an adopted node from another document to this document |
| document.anchors | Get a list of the anchors in the document |
| document.applets | Get a list of the applets in the document |
| document.baseURI | Get the absolute base URI of a document |
| document.body | Get the body element of the document |
| document.close() | Close the output stream opened with document.open() |
| document.cookie | Get all cookies in the document |
| document.createAttribute() | Create an attribute node |
| document.createComment() | Create a Comment node with the specified text |
| document.createDocumentFragment() | Create an empty DocumentFragment node |
| document.createElement() | Create an Element node |
| document.createTextNode() | Create a Text node |
| document.doctype | Get the Document Type Declaration associated with the document |
| document.documentElement | Get the Document Element of the document |
| document.documentMode | Get the mode used by the browser to render the document |
| document.documentURI | Set or get the location of the document |
| document.domain | Get the domain name of the server where the document is from |
| document.domConfig | Returns the configuration used when invoking normalizeDocument() |
| document.embeds | Get a list of the embeds in the document |
| document.forms | Get a list of the forms in the document |
| document.getElementById() | Get the element by ID attribute with the specified value |
| document.getElementsByClassName() | Get a NodeList containing all elements with the specified class name |
| document.getElementsByName() | Get all elements by a specified name |
| document.getElementsByTagName() | Get a NodeList containing all elements with the specified tagname |
| document.head | Get the head element of the document |
| document.images | get a list of all the images in the document |
| document.implementation | Get the DOMImplementation object that handles this document |
| document.importNode() | Imports a node from another document |
| document.inputEncoding | Get the encoding, character set, used for the document |
| document.lastModified | Get when the document was last modified |
| document.links | Get a list of all links in the document |
| document.normalize() | Remove empty Text nodes, and joins adjacent nodes |
| document.normalizeDocument() | Removes empty Text nodes, and joins adjacent nodes |
| document.open() | Open an HTML output stream to output from document.write() |
| document.querySelector() | Get the first element that matches a specified CSS selector(s) in the document |
| document.querySelectorAll() | Get a NodeList containing all elements that matches a specified CSS selector(s) in the document |
| document.readyState | Get the loading status of the document |
| document.referrer | Get the URL of the document that loaded the current document |
| document.removeEventListener() | Remove an event handler from the document |
| document.renameNode() | Renames the specified node |
| document.scripts | Get a list of all the scripts in the document |
| document.strictErrorChecking | Sets or gets whether error-checking is on |
| document.title | Sets or gets the title of the document |
| document.URL | Get the full URL of the document |
| document.write() | Write String value to a document |
| document.writeln() | Same as write(), but adds a newline character after |