Node

package js.html

extends EventTarget

extended by Attr, CharacterData, DOMElement, Document, DocumentFragment, DocumentType

Available on js

A Node is an interface from which a number of DOM types inherit, and allows these various types to be treated (or tested) similarly.

Documentation Node by Mozilla Contributors, licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.5.

See:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node

Variables

read only baseURI:String

Returns a DOMString representing the base URL. The concept of base URL changes from one language to another; in HTML, it corresponds to the protocol, the domain name and the directory structure, that is all until the last '/'.

read only childNodes:NodeList

Returns a live NodeList containing all the children of this node. NodeList being live means that if the children of the Node change, the NodeList object is automatically updated.

read only firstChild:Node

Returns a Node representing the first direct child node of the node, or null if the node has no child.

read only lastChild:Node

Returns a Node representing the last direct child node of the node, or null if the node has no child.

read only localName:String

Returns a DOMString representing the local part of the qualified name of an element.

Note: In Firefox 3.5 and earlier, the property upper-cases the local name for HTML elements (but not XHTML elements). In later versions, this does not happen, so the property is in lower case for both HTML and XHTML. 1.9.2

read only namespaceURI:String

The namespace URI of this node, or null if it is no namespace.

Note: In Firefox 3.5 and earlier, HTML elements are in no namespace. In later versions, HTML elements are in the https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/ namespace in both HTML and XML trees. 1.9.2

read only nextSibling:Node

Returns a Node representing the next node in the tree, or null if there isn't such node.

read only nodeName:String

Returns a DOMString containing the name of the Node. The structure of the name will differ with the name type. E.g. An HTMLElement will contain the name of the corresponding tag, like 'audio' for an HTMLAudioElement, a Text node will have the '#text' string, or a Document node will have the '#document' string.

read only nodeType:Int

Returns an unsigned short representing the type of the node. Possible values are:

Name Value

ELEMENT_NODE	1
ATTRIBUTE_NODE (deprecated)	2
TEXT_NODE	3
CDATA_SECTION_NODE (deprecated)	4
ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE (deprecated)	5
ENTITY_NODE (deprecated)	6
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE	7
COMMENT_NODE	8
DOCUMENT_NODE	9
DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE	10
DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE	11
NOTATION_NODE (deprecated)	12

nodeValue:String

Returns / Sets the value of the current node

read only ownerDocument:HTMLDocument

Returns the Document that this node belongs to. If no document is associated with it, returns null.

read only parentElement:Element

Returns an Element that is the parent of this node. If the node has no parent, or if that parent is not an Element, this property returns null.

read only parentNode:Node

Returns a Node that is the parent of this node. If there is no such node, like if this node is the top of the tree or if doesn't participate in a tree, this property returns null.

read only prefix:String

Is a DOMString representing the namespace prefix of the node, or null if no prefix is specified.

read only previousSibling:Node

Returns a Node representing the previous node in the tree, or null if there isn't such node.

textContent:String

Returns / Sets the textual content of an element and all its descendants.

Methods

appendChild (node:Node):Node

Throws:

null	DOMError

cloneNode (deep:Bool = false):Node

Throws:

null	DOMError

compareDocumentPosition (other:Node):Int

Returns the context objects root which optionally includes the shadow root if it is available.

contains (other:Node):Bool

Returns the context objects root which optionally includes the shadow root if it is available.

hasChildNodes ():Bool

Returns a Boolean indicating if the element has any child nodes, or not.

insertBefore (node:Node, child:Node):Node

Throws:

null	DOMError

isDefaultNamespace (namespace_:String):Bool

Returns a Boolean which indicates whether or not two nodes are of the same type and all their defining data points match.

isEqualNode (node:Node):Bool

Returns a Boolean which indicates whether or not two nodes are of the same type and all their defining data points match.

lookupNamespaceURI (prefix:String):String

Clean up all the text nodes under this element (merge adjacent, remove empty).

lookupPrefix (namespace_:String):String

Clean up all the text nodes under this element (merge adjacent, remove empty).

normalize ():Void

Clean up all the text nodes under this element (merge adjacent, remove empty).

removeChild (child:Node):Node

Throws:

null	DOMError

replaceChild (node:Node, child:Node):Node

Throws:

null	DOMError

Static variables

static inline read only ATTRIBUTE_NODE:Int = 2

static inline read only CDATA_SECTION_NODE:Int = 4

static inline read only COMMENT_NODE:Int = 8

static inline read only DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE:Int = 11

static inline read only DOCUMENT_NODE:Int = 9

static inline read only DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY:Int = 16

static inline read only DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS:Int = 8

static inline read only DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED:Int = 1

static inline read only DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING:Int = 4

static inline read only DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC:Int = 32

static inline read only DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING:Int = 2

static inline read only DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE:Int = 10

static inline read only ELEMENT_NODE:Int = 1

static inline read only ENTITY_NODE:Int = 6

static inline read only ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE:Int = 5

static inline read only NOTATION_NODE:Int = 12

static inline read only PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE:Int = 7

static inline read only TEXT_NODE:Int = 3