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Programmatically sets default properties on an element behavior.

Members Table

The following table lists the members exposed by the defaults object.

Attributes/Properties

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Attribute Property Description blockDirection Gets a string value that indicates whether the content in the block element flows from left to right, or from right to left. canHaveHTML Sets or retrieves the value indicating whether the object can contain rich HTML markup. CONTENTEDITABLE contentEditable Sets or retrieves the string that indicates whether the user can edit the content of the object. isMultiLine Retrieves the value indicating whether the content of the object contains one or more lines. tabStop Sets or retrieves whether an element behavior can receive focus and participate in the tabbing sequence. viewInheritStyle Sets or retrieves a value that indicates whether the document fragment inherits the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) styles set in the primary document. viewLink Sets or retrieves the document object that supplies content to the master element. viewMasterTab Sets or retrieves a value that indicates whether the master element of a viewlink is included in the tab sequence of the primary document. Event Description onbeforeeditfocus Fires before an object contained in an editable element enters a UI-activated state or when an editable container object is control selected. Object Description style Represents the current settings of all possible inline styles for a given element. Style attribute Style property Description ACCELERATOR accelerator Sets or retrieves a string that indicates whether the object contains an accelerator key. background background Sets or retrieves up to five separate background properties of the object. background-attachment backgroundAttachment Sets or retrieves how the background image is attached to the object within the document. background-color backgroundColor Sets or retrieves the color behind the content of the object. background-image backgroundImage Sets or retrieves the background image of the object. background-position backgroundPosition Sets or retrieves the position of the background of the object. background-position-x backgroundPositionX Sets or retrieves the x-coordinate of the backgroundPosition property. background-position-y backgroundPositionY Sets or retrieves the y-coordinate of the backgroundPosition property. background-repeat backgroundRepeat Sets or retrieves how the backgroundImage property of the object is tiled. behavior behavior Sets or retrieves the location of the Dynamic HTML (DHTML) behavior. border border Sets or retrieves the properties to draw around the object. border-bottom borderBottom Sets or retrieves the properties of the bottom border of the object. border-bottom-color borderBottomColor Sets or retrieves the color of the bottom border of the object. border-bottom-style borderBottomStyle Sets or retrieves the style of the bottom border of the object. border-bottom-width borderBottomWidth Sets or retrieves the width of the bottom border of the object. border-color borderColor Sets or retrieves the border color of the object. border-left borderLeft Sets or retrieves the properties of the left border of the object. border-left-color borderLeftColor Sets or retrieves the color of the left border of the object. border-left-style borderLeftStyle Sets or retrieves the style of the left border of the object. border-left-width borderLeftWidth Sets or retrieves the width of the left border of the object. border-right borderRight Sets or retrieves the properties of the right border of the object. border-right-color borderRightColor Sets or retrieves the color of the right border of the object. border-right-style borderRightStyle Sets or retrieves the style of the right border of the object. border-right-width borderRightWidth Sets or retrieves the width of the right border of the object. border-style borderStyle Sets or retrieves the style of the left, right, top, and bottom borders of the object. border-top borderTop Sets or retrieves the properties of the top border of the object. border-top-color borderTopColor Sets or retrieves the color of the top border of the object. border-top-style borderTopStyle Sets or retrieves the style of the top border of the object. border-top-width borderTopWidth Sets or retrieves the width of the top border of the object. border-width borderWidth Sets or retrieves the width of the left, right, top, and bottom borders of the object. bottom bottom Sets or retrieves the bottom position of the object in relation to the bottom of the next positioned object in the document hierarchy. clear clear Sets or retrieves whether the object allows floating objects on its left side, right side, or both, so that the next text displays past the floating objects. clip clip Sets or retrieves which part of a positioned object is visible. color color Sets or retrieves the color of the text of the object. cursor cursor Sets or retrieves the type of cursor to display as the mouse pointer moves over the object. direction direction Sets or retrieves the reading order of the object. display display Sets or retrieves whether the object is rendered. font font Sets or retrieves a combination of separate font properties of the object. Alternatively, sets or retrieves one or more of six user-preference fonts. font-family fontFamily Sets or retrieves the name of the font used for text in the object. font-size fontSize Sets or retrieves a value that indicates the font size used for text in the object. font-style fontStyle Sets or retrieves the font style of the object as italic, normal, or oblique. font-variant fontVariant Sets or retrieves whether the text of the object is in small capital letters. fontWeight Gets the numeric weight of the font of the object. font-weight fontWeight Sets or retrieves the weight of the font of the object. layout-grid layoutGrid Sets or retrieves the composite document grid properties that specify the layout of text characters. layout-grid-mode layoutGridMode Sets or retrieves whether the text layout grid uses two dimensions. left left Sets or retrieves the position of the object relative to the left edge of the next positioned object in the document hierarchy. letter-spacing letterSpacing Sets or retrieves the amount of additional space between letters in the object. line-height lineHeight Sets or retrieves the distance between lines in the object. margin margin Sets or retrieves the width of the top, right, bottom, and left margins of the object. margin-bottom marginBottom Sets or retrieves the height of the bottom margin of the object. margin-left marginLeft Sets or retrieves the width of the left margin of the object. margin-right marginRight Sets or retrieves the width of the right margin of the object. margin-top marginTop Sets or retrieves the height of the top margin of the object. overflow overflow Sets or retrieves a value indicating how to manage the content of the object when the content exceeds the height or width of the object. overflow-x overflowX Sets or retrieves how to manage the content of the object when the content exceeds the width of the object. overflow-y overflowY Sets or retrieves how to manage the content of the object when the content exceeds the height of the object. padding padding Sets or retrieves the amount of space to insert between the object and its margin or, if there is a border, between the object and its border. padding-bottom paddingBottom Sets or retrieves the amount of space to insert between the bottom border of the object and the content. padding-left paddingLeft Sets or retrieves the amount of space to insert between the left border of the object and the content. padding-right paddingRight Sets or retrieves the amount of space to insert between the right border of the object and the content. padding-top paddingTop Sets or retrieves the amount of space to insert between the top border of the object and the content. pixelBottom Sets or retrieves the bottom position of the object. pixelHeight Sets or retrieves the height of the object. pixelLeft Sets or retrieves the left position of the object. pixelRight Sets or retrieves the right position of the object. pixelTop Sets or retrieves the top position of the object. pixelWidth Sets or retrieves the width of the object. posBottom Sets or retrieves the bottom position of the object in the units specified by the bottom attribute. posHeight Sets or retrieves the height of the object in the units specified by the height attribute. position position Sets or retrieves the type of positioning used for the object. posLeft Sets or retrieves the left position of the object in the units specified by the left attribute. posRight Sets or retrieves the right position of the object in the units specified by the right attribute. posTop Sets or retrieves the top position of the object in the units specified by the top attribute. posWidth Sets or retrieves the width of the object in the units specified by the width attribute. scrollbar-3dlight-color scrollbar3dLightColor Sets or retrieves the color of the top and left edges of the scroll box and scroll arrows of a scroll bar. scrollbar-arrow-color scrollbarArrowColor Sets or retrieves the color of the arrow elements of a scroll arrow. scrollbar-base-color scrollbarBaseColor Sets or retrieves the color of the main elements of a scroll bar, which include the scroll box, track, and scroll arrows. scrollbar-darkshadow-color scrollbarDarkShadowColor Sets or retrieves the color of the gutter of a scroll bar. scrollbar-face-color scrollbarFaceColor Sets or retrieves the color of the scroll box and scroll arrows of a scroll bar. scrollbar-highlight-color scrollbarHighlightColor Sets or retrieves the color of the top and left edges of the scroll box and scroll arrows of a scroll bar. scrollbar-shadow-color scrollbarShadowColor Sets or retrieves the color of the bottom and right edges of the scroll box and scroll arrows of a scroll bar. scrollbar-track-color scrollbarTrackColor Sets or retrieves the color of the track element of a scroll bar. float styleFloat Sets or retrieves on which side of the object the text will flow. text-autospace textAutospace Sets or retrieves the autospacing and narrow space width adjustment of text. text-decoration textDecoration Sets or retrieves a value that indicates whether the text in the object has blink, line-through, overline, or underline decorations. textDecorationBlink Sets or retrieves a Boolean value that indicates whether the object's textDecoration property has a value of "blink." textDecorationLineThrough Sets or retrieves a Boolean value indicating whether the text in the object has a line drawn through it. textDecorationNone Sets or retrieves the Boolean value indicating whether the textDecoration property for the object has been set to none. textDecorationOverline Sets or retrieves a Boolean value indicating whether the text in the object has a line drawn over it. textDecorationUnderline Sets or retrieves whether the text in the object is underlined. text-overflow textOverflow Sets or retrieves a value that indicates whether to render ellipses(...) to indicate text overflow. text-transform textTransform Sets or retrieves the rendering of the text in the object. top top Sets or retrieves the position of the object relative to the top of the next positioned object in the document hierarchy. unicode-bidi unicodeBidi Sets or retrieves the level of embedding with respect to the bidirectional algorithm. vertical-align verticalAlign Sets or retrieves the vertical alignment of the object. visibility visibility Sets or retrieves whether the content of the object is displayed. z-index zIndex Sets or retrieves the stacking order of positioned objects.

Remarks

The PUBLIC:DEFAULTS element is the declarative form of the defaults object.

This object is available in script as of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5.

Standards Information

There is no public standard that applies to this object.

See Also

Introduction to Viewlink, About Element Behaviors