DOM对象常用方法(国外英语资料).doc

DOM对象常用方法(国外英语资料) Common methods for Dom objects: (1) getElementById () queries the element of the given ID attribute value and returns the element node of that element The element that queries a given ID attribute value returns the element node of that element. Also known as element objects. Because the value of the id in an HTML page is unique, the return value is also unique. So the name of the method is getElementById () instead of getElementsById (). This method can only be used for document objects, similar to the static keyword of Java. (2) getElementsByName () looks up all the elements of a given name attribute, which returns a collection of nodes or objects Looking for all the elements of a given name attribute, this method returns a collection of nodes, or a collection of objects. The set can be treated as an array, and the value of the length attribute represents the number of collections. Because in the HTML page, the name is not the only one that identifies an element, so the name of the method is getElementsByName instead of getElementByName (3) getElementsByTagName () queries all elements of a given tag name Query all elements of a given tag name Because the tag name is not unique in the HTML page, the return value is a collection of nodes. This collection can be treated as an array, and the length attribute is the number of elements in the collection There are two ways to do this: 1, var elements = document.getelementsbytagname (tagName); 2, var elements = element. GetElementsByTagName (tagName); From these two methods, you can see that the object that holds this method is not necessarily the entire document object (document). It can also be an element node. (4) hasChildNodes () is used to determine whether an element has a child node and returns a value of true or false The method is used to determine whether an element has child nodes The return value is true or false The text node and the attribute node cant contain the child nodes, so the return