IHTMLElement interface

This interface provides the ability to programmatically access the properties and methods that are common to all element objects.

Members

The IHTMLElement interface inherits from the IDispatch interface. IHTMLElement also has these types of members:

• Methods
• Properties

Methods

The IHTMLElement interface has these methods.

Method	Description
click	Simulates a click by causing the HTMLFrameSiteEvents::onclick event to fire.
contains	Checks whether the given element is contained within the object.
getAttribute	Retrieves the value of the specified attribute.
insertAdjacentHTML	Inserts the given HTML text into the element at the location.
insertAdjacentText	Inserts the given text into the element at the specified location.
removeAttribute	Removes an attribute from an object.
scrollIntoView	Causes the object to scroll into view, aligning it either at the top or bottom of the window.
setAttribute	Sets the value of the specified attribute.

 

Properties

The IHTMLElement interface has these properties.

Property	Description
className	Sets or retrieves the class of the object.
id	Sets or retrieves the string identifying the object.
innerHTML	Sets or retrieves the HTML between the start and end tags of the object.
innerText	Sets or retrieves the text between the start and end tags of the object.
isTextEdit	Retrieves whether a TextRange object can be created using the object.
lang	Sets or retrieves the language to use.
language	Sets or retrieves the language in which the current script is written. Note  This has been superceded by the type attribute for the script element. If you are using javascript alone, you don't need to specify a type or language with the script element.
offsetHeight	Retrieves the height of the object relative to the layout or coordinate parent, as specified by the IHTMLElement::offsetParent property.
offsetLeft	Retrieves the calculated left position of the object relative to the layout or coordinate parent, as specified by the IHTMLElement::offsetParent property.
offsetParent	Retrieves a reference to the container object that defines the IHTMLElement::offsetTop and IHTMLElement::offsetLeft properties of the object.
offsetTop	Retrieves the calculated top position of the object relative to the layout or coordinate parent, as specified by the IHTMLElement::offsetParent property.
offsetWidth	Retrieves the width of the object relative to the layout or coordinate parent, as specified by the IHTMLElement::offsetParent property.
outerHTML	Sets or retrieves the object and its content in HTML.
outerText	Sets or retrieves the text of the object.
parentElement	Retrieves the parent object in the object hierarchy.
parentTextEdit	Retrieves the container object in the document hierarchy that can be used to create a TextRange containing the original object.
recordNumber	Retrieves the ordinal record from the data set that generated the object.
sourceIndex	Retrieves the ordinal position of the object, in source order, as the object appears in the document's all collection.
tagName	Retrieves the tag name of the object.
title	Sets or retrieves advisory information (a ToolTip) for the object.

 

Requirements

Minimum supported client	Windows XP
Minimum supported server	Windows 2000 Server
Header	Mshtml.h
IDL	Mshtml.idl
DLL	Mshtml.dll

See also

IDispatch