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Property or method
getElementsByTagName(tagName)
hasChildNodes()
hasTranslatedAttributes()
Properties and methods of text objects
Each contiguous block of text in an HTML document (for example, the text within a
represented by a JavaScript object. Text objects never have children. The following table
describes the properties and methods of text objects that are taken from DOM Level 1 and
used in Dreamweaver. A bullet (•) marks read-only properties.
Property or method
nodeType •
parentNode •
childNodes •
data
hasChildNodes()
134 The Dreamweaver Document Object Model
Return value
A that can be used to step through child tags
NodeList
of type (for example,
tagName
If the argument is
tag
and tags and all absolutely positioned
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and tags.
SPAN
If the argument is
tag
elements. (If a name attribute is specified for one or
more objects, it must begin with a letter, which
tagName
the HTML 4.01 specification requires, or the length of
the array that this function returns is incorrect.)
A Boolean value that indicates whether the tag has
any children.
A Boolean value that indicates whether the tag has any
translated attributes. (This property is not included in
DOM Level 1; it was added to Dreamweaver 3 to
support attribute translation.)
Return value
Node.TEXT_NODE
The parent tag
An empty
NodeList
The actual text string. Entities in the text are
represented as a single character (for example, the text
is returned as
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false
, , and so on).
IMG DIV
, the function returns all
LAYER
, the function returns all form
INPUT
).
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DIV
tag) is
P