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Identifies the document as containing HTML elements.

Members Table

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

Attributes/Properties

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Attribute Property Description ariaBusy   Sets or retrieves the busy state of this element. ariaChecked   Sets or retrieves the checked state of this element. ariaDisabled   Sets or retrieves the disabled state of this element. ariaExpanded   Sets or retrieves the expanded state of this element. ariaHaspopup   Sets or retrieves a value indicating whether this element may display a pop-up window. ariaHidden   Sets or retrieves the hidden state of this element. ariaInvalid   Sets or retrieves the invalid state of this element. ariaLevel   Sets or retrieves the level of this element. ariaMultiselect   Sets or retrieves the multiple-selection state of this element. ariaPosinset   Sets or retrieves the current position of an item within a set. ariaPressed   Sets or retrieves the pressed state of a button that can be toggled. ariaReadonly   Sets or retrieves the read-only state of this element. ariaRequired   Sets or retrieves the form-completion requirement of this element. ariaSecret   Sets or retrieves the secret state of this element. ariaSelected   Sets or retrieves the selection state of this element. ariaSetsize   Sets or retrieves the set size of this element. attributes   Retrieves a collection of attributes of the object. canHaveChildren Gets a value indicating whether the object can contain child objects. canHaveHTML Sets or retrieves the value indicating whether the object can contain rich HTML markup. CLASS className Sets or retrieves the class of the object. clientHeight Retrieves the height of the object including padding, but not including margin, border, or scroll bar. clientLeft Retrieves the distance between the offsetLeft property and the true left side of the client area. clientTop Retrieves the distance between the offsetTop property and the true top of the client area. clientWidth Retrieves the width of the object including padding, but not including margin, border, or scroll bar. counter-increment   counterIncrement Sets or retrieves a list of counters to increment. counter-reset   counterReset Sets or retrieves a list of counters to create or reset to zero. DIR dir Sets or retrieves the reading order of the object. firstChild Retrieves a reference to the first child in the childNodes collection of the object. ID id Retrieves the string identifying the object. innerHTML 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. isContentEditable Gets the value that indicates whether the user can edit the contents of the object. isDisabled Gets the value that indicates whether the user can interact with the object. isMultiLine Retrieves the value indicating whether the content of the object contains one or more lines. isTextEdit Retrieves whether a TextRange object can be created using the object. lastChild Retrieves a reference to the last child in the childNodes collection of an object. -ms-box-sizing   msBoxSizing Sets or retrieves the box model to use for object sizing. nextSibling Retrieves a reference to the next child of the parent for the object. nodeName Retrieves the name of a particular type of node. nodeType Retrieves the type of the requested node. nodeValue Sets or retrieves the value of a node. onOffBehavior Gets an object that indicates whether the specified Microsoft DirectAnimation behavior is running. outerHTML Sets or retrieves the object and its content in HTML. outerText Sets or retrieves the text of the object. ownerDocument Retrieves the document object associated with the node. parentElement Retrieves the parent object in the object hierarchy. parentNode Retrieves the parent object in the document hierarchy. parentTextEdit Retrieves the container object in the document hierarchy that can be used to create a TextRange containing the original object. previousSibling Retrieves a reference to the previous child of the parent for the object. readyState Retrieves the current state of the object. role   Sets or retrieves the role for this element. scopeName Gets the namespace defined for the element. SCROLL scroll Sets or gets a value that indicates whether the scroll bars are turned on or off. scrollHeight Retrieves the scrolling height of the object. scrollLeft Sets or retrieves the distance between the left edge of the object and the leftmost portion of the content currently visible in the window. scrollTop Sets or retrieves the distance between the top of the object and the topmost portion of the content currently visible in the window. scrollWidth Retrieves the scrolling width of 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. tagUrn Sets or gets the Uniform Resource Name (URN) specified in the namespace declaration. uniqueID Retrieves an autogenerated, unique identifier for the object. VERSION version Sets or retrieves the Document Type Definition (DTD) version that governs the current document. XMLNS Declares a namespace for custom tags in an HTML document. Behavior Description clientCaps Provides information about features supported by Internet Explorer, as well as a way for installing browser components on demand. download Downloads a file and notifies a specified callback function when the download is complete. homePage Contains information about a user's homepage. Collection Description all Returns a reference to the collection of elements contained by the object. attributes Retrieves a collection of attributes of the object. behaviorUrns Returns a collection of Uniform Resource Name (URN) strings identifying the behaviors attached to the element. childNodes Retrieves a collection of HTML Elements and TextNode objects that are direct descendants of the specified object. children Retrieves a collection of DHTML Objects that are direct descendants of the object. Event Description onlayoutcomplete Fires when the print or print preview layout process finishes filling the current LayoutRect object with content from the source document. onmouseenter Fires when the user moves the mouse pointer into the object. onmouseleave Fires when the user moves the mouse pointer outside the boundaries of the object. onreadystatechange Fires when the state of the object has changed. Method Description addBehavior Attaches a behavior to the element. appendChild Appends an element as a child to the object. applyElement Makes the element either a child or parent of another element. attachEvent Binds the specified function to an event, so that the function gets called whenever the event fires on the object. clearAttributes Removes all attributes and values from the object. cloneNode Copies a reference to the object from the document hierarchy. componentFromPoint Returns the component located at the specified coordinates via certain events. contains Checks whether the given element is contained within the object. detachEvent Unbinds the specified function from the event, so that the function stops receiving notifications when the event fires. dragDrop Initiates a drag event. fireEvent Fires a specified event on the object. getAdjacentText Returns the adjacent text string. getAttribute   Retrieves the value of the specified attribute. getAttribute Retrieves the value of the specified attribute. getAttributeNode Gets an attribute object referenced by the attribute.name property. getElementsByTagName Retrieves a collection of objects based on the specified element name. hasAttribute   Determines whether an attribute with the specified name exists. hasChildNodes Returns a value that indicates whether the object has children. insertAdjacentElement Inserts an element at the specified location. insertBefore Inserts an element into the document hierarchy as a child node of a parent object. mergeAttributes Copies all read/write attributes to the specified element. normalize Merges adjacent TextNode objects to produce a normalized document object model. querySelector   Retrieves the first Document Object Model (DOM) element node from descendants of the starting element node that match any selector within the supplied selector string. querySelectorAll   Retrieves all DOM element nodes from descendants of the starting element node that match any selector within the supplied selector strings. removeAttribute   Removes the given attribute from the object. removeAttribute Removes the given attribute from the object. removeAttributeNode Removes an attribute object from the object. removeBehavior Detaches a behavior from the element. removeChild Removes a child node from the object. removeNode Removes the object from the document hierarchy. replaceAdjacentText Replaces the text adjacent to the element. replaceChild Replaces an existing child element with a new child element. replaceNode Replaces the object with another element. setAttribute   Sets the value of the specified attribute. setAttribute Sets the value of the specified attribute. setAttributeNode Sets an attribute object node as part of the object. swapNode Exchanges the location of two objects in the document hierarchy. Object Description currentStyle Represents the cascaded format and style of the object as specified by global style sheets, inline styles, and HTML attributes. runtimeStyle Represents the cascaded format and style of the object that overrides the format and style specified in global style sheets, inline styles, and HTML attributes. style Represents the current settings of all possible inline styles for a given element. Style attribute Style property Description :first-child :first-child Applies one or more styles to any element that is the first child of its parent. :hover :hover Sets the style of an element when the user hovers the mouse pointer over the element. 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-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. color color Sets or retrieves the color of the text of the object. content   content Sets or retrieves generated content to insert before or after an element. cursor cursor Sets or retrieves the type of cursor to display as the mouse pointer moves over 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. 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. orphans   orphans Sets or retrieves the minimum number of lines of a paragraph that must appear at the bottom of a page. 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. 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-transform textTransform Sets or retrieves the rendering of the text in the object. text-underline-position textUnderlinePosition Sets or retrieves the position of the underline decoration that is set through the textDecoration property of the object. visibility visibility Sets or retrieves whether the content of the object is displayed. widows   widows Sets or retrieves the minimum number of lines of a paragraph that must appear at the top of a page. word-spacing wordSpacing Sets or retrieves the amount of additional space between words in the object. word-wrap wordWrap Sets or retrieves whether to break words when the content exceeds the boundaries of its container.

Remarks

With Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and later, when you use the !DOCTYPE declaration to specify standards-compliant mode, this element represents the canvas—the entire surface onto which a document's contents can be rendered. When you switch on standards-compliant mode, this element also becomes the positioning container for positioned elements that don't have a positioned parent. When the !DOCTYPE declaration does not specify standards-compliant mode, and with earler versions of Internet Explorer, the body object represents the entire surface onto which a document's contents can be rendered.

In Internet Explorer 6, When you use the !DOCTYPE declaration to specify standards-compliant mode, this element represents the canvas, the entire surface onto which a document's contents can be rendered.

This element is not rendered.

This element requires a closing tag.

Example

This example uses the HTML element to identify the document as an HTML document.

<HTML>
<BODY>
<P>This is an HTML document.</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Standards Information

This object is defined in HTML 3.2 .

See Also

Declaring a Namespace, CSS Enhancements in Internet Explorer 6