Common Properties, Methods and Collections for the HTML Elements in Internet Explorer (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)

1/6/2010

This topic shows the common properties, methods and collections that are associated with all the elements that are in the document object model (DOM).

Properties

The following table shows the properties that apply to all the elements that are in the DOM.

Property	Type/Argument	Access
childNodes	NodeList	Read-only
className	String	Read/Write
currentStyle	Object	Read-only
dir	Not available	Not supported
document	Object	Read-only
expando	Not available	See Expansion of the object's properties
id	String	Read/Write
innerHTML	String	Read/Write
innerText	String	Read/Write
lang	Not available	Not supported
parentElement	Object	Read-only
parentNode	Node	Read-only
style	Object	Read-only
tagName	String	Read-only
title	Not available	Not supported

Expansion of the object's properties

All objects now react as if the expando property were set to true. However, the expando property is not been implemented.

This means that all objects can now have user-defined properties added to them. Therefore, any reference to an unknown property for an object will create that property should it not already exist for that object. This means that care is required with upper and lowercase letters in properties. For example, innerhtml will not be the same property as innerHTML. Also the effect of object.expando=false will create or set a user-defined property that is named expando.

Methods

The following table shows the methods that apply to all the elements that are in the DOM:

Method	Comments
appendChild	Syntax: element.appendChild(node) Insert the given node as the last child node for this element. Returns the value of the appended Node.
insertBefore	Syntax: element.insertBefore(node) Insert the given node as the last child node for this element.
removeChild	Syntax: element.removeChild(node) Remove the given child node from this element. Returns the value of the removed Node.
replaceChild	Syntax: element.replaceChild(insertNode, replacedNode) Replace the given replacedNode with the insertNode in the list of nodes for this element. Returns the value of the replaced node.

Collections

The following table shows the collections that apply to all the elements that are in the DOM:

Collection	Type/Argument	Access
Children	Not available	N/A
Length	Long	Read-only
Item	([optional] variant name, [optional] variant index)	Supported

See Also

Other Resources

Internet Explorer Embedded Reference