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Specifies a script for the page that is interpreted by a script engine.

Members Table

The following table lists the members exposed by the script 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. canHaveHTML Sets or retrieves the value indicating whether the object can contain rich HTML markup. charset Sets or retrieves the character set used to encode 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. DEFER defer Sets or retrieves the status of the script. EVENT event Sets or retrieves the event for which the script is written. firstChild Retrieves a reference to the first child in the childNodes collection of the object. FOR htmlFor Sets or retrieves the object that is bound to the event script. ID id 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. 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. LANG lang Sets or retrieves the language to use. LANGUAGE language Sets or retrieves the language in which the current script is written. lastChild Retrieves a reference to the last child in the childNodes collection of an object. 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. 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 a value that indicates the current state of the object. role   Sets or retrieves the role for this element. scopeName Gets the namespace defined for the element. 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. SRC src Retrieves the URL to an external file that contains the source code or data. tagName Retrieves the tag name of the object. tagUrn Sets or gets the Uniform Resource Name (URN) specified in the namespace declaration. text Retrieves or sets the text of the object as a string. TYPE type Sets or retrieves the MIME type for the associated scripting engine. uniqueID Retrieves an autogenerated, unique identifier for the object. 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. saveSnapshot Enables the object to persist data when a Web page is saved. 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 onload Fires immediately after the browser loads the object. onpropertychange Fires when a property changes on the object. onreadystatechange Fires when the state of the object has changed. Method Description addBehavior Attaches a behavior to the element. 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. mergeAttributes Copies all read/write attributes to the specified element. normalize Merges adjacent TextNode objects to produce a normalized document object model. 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. replaceAdjacentText Replaces the text adjacent to the 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. Style attribute Style property Description 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. behavior behavior Sets or retrieves the location of the Dynamic HTML (DHTML) behavior. 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. 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. 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. text-autospace textAutospace Sets or retrieves the autospacing and narrow space width adjustment of text. text-underline-position textUnderlinePosition Sets or retrieves the position of the underline decoration that is set through the textDecoration property of the object.

Remarks

Code within the SCRIPT block that is not contained within a function is executed immediately as the page is loaded. To keep scripts from being displayed on down-level browsers, nest the SCRIPT block within a COMMENT block.

Script appearing after a FRAMESET element is ignored.

Whenever the language attribute is not defined on the SCRIPT object, then MSHTML attempts to select a suitable scripting engine. An error generally occurs if the wrong scripting engine is selected. When more than one SCRIPT object is used on a page, it can be necessary to specify the language attribute for each SCRIPT object, and doing so is always recommended. The order of the SCRIPT objects in a document can also be important, especially if scripting event handlers are assigned to one or more elements in the document. XML is legitimate content for the SCRIPT object, but XML is not a scripting language. Therefore, an error can occur if MSHTML selects an XML data island as the SCRIPT object that contains an event handler function. This can happen because MSHTML selects the first SCRIPT object that has the language attribute defined as the default script block for event handlers. For more information, see the examples.

This element is not rendered.

This element requires a closing tag.

Examples

The following code snippet provides a scenario where an error occurs.

<html>
<head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="XML" id="mySrc1">
<offerings>
 <class><materials>This should render.</materials><time>1.5
hr</time></class>
</offerings>
</SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript">
function returnIslandRootName()
{
  var islandRoot = document.all["mySrc1"].XMLDocument;
  alert(islandRoot.nodeName);
}
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<body>
<button >Test the XML Data Island</button>
</body>
</html>

Because the XML data island is the first instance of the SCRIPT object that has the language attribute defined, MSHTML attempts to locate the returnIslandRootName function in the XML and fails. To correct the sample, the order of the SCRIPT objects can changed, as shown by the following:

<html>
<head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript">
function returnIslandRootName()
{
  var islandRoot = document.all["mySrc1"].XMLDocument;
  alert(islandRoot.nodeName);
}
</SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="XML" id="mySrc1">
<offerings>
 <class><materials>This should render.</materials><time>1.5
hr</time></class>
</offerings>
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<body>
<button >Test the XML Data Island</button>
</body>
</html>

Standards Information

This object is defined in HTML 3.2  and is defined in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 .

See Also

XML Data Islands