Element (W3C DOM Core object)

Spec
Version Depr. Parent
DOM1 No Node
Browser support (more…)
IE5.5+ FF1.5+ SA1.3+ OP9+
Buggy Buggy Buggy Buggy

Example

<p>
  <q>Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed.
  The ability to destroy a planet is <strong>insignificant</strong>
  next to the power of The Force.</q>
</p>

In the example above, the <p>, <q> and <strong> are all Element nodes.

Description

The Element interface inherits from Node, and represents a single element in an HTML or XML document.

An Element node may have other Element, Text, Comment, ProcessingInstruction, CDATASection or EntityReference nodes as children.

Compatibility

Internet Explorer Firefox Safari Opera
5.5 6.0 7.0 1.5 2.0 3.0 1.3 2.0 3.0 9.0 9.5
Buggy Buggy Buggy Buggy Buggy Buggy Buggy Buggy Buggy Buggy Buggy

Internet Explorer doesn't implement the following:

Additionally, Internet Explorer 5.5 in HTML doesn't implement the following (but does in XML):

Internet Explorer 5.5 has only a partial implementation of getElementsByTagName.

Internet Explorer and Opera have buggy implementations of setAttribute.

Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Safari 1.3 and 2 and Opera 9.0 have buggy implementations of setAttributeNode.

Firefox, Safari 1.3 and 2 and Opera have buggy implementations of getAttributeNS, getAttributeNodeNS, hasAttributeNS, removeAttributeNS, setAttributeNS and setAttributeNodeNS.

Firefox 1.5 and 2, Safari and Opera have buggy implementations of getElementsByTagName.

Firefox and Safari have buggy implementations of hasAttribute.

Safari 1.3 and 2 have only a partial implementation of getElementsByTagNameNS.

All browsers have buggy implementations of getAttribute.

All browsers except Opera 9.0 have buggy implementations of removeAttribute and removeAttributeNode.

All browsers except Opera 9.5 have buggy implementations of getAttributeNode.

In this Section

  • getAttribute
    Get the value of an attribute with the specified name.
  • getAttributeNode
    Get an attribute node with the specified name.
  • getAttributeNodeNS
    Get the value of an attribute with the specified name and namespace URI.
  • getAttributeNS
    Get the value of an attribute with the specified name and namespace URI.
  • getElementsByTagName
    Retrieves an ordered list of all elements with a given tag name, that are descendants of this document or element, in the linear order in which they appear in the DOM tree.
  • getElementsByTagNameNS
    Retrieves an ordered list of all elements with a given localName and namespaceURI, that are descendants of this document or element, in the linear order in which they appear in the DOM tree.
  • hasAttribute
    Whether this element has an attribute with the specified name, or has a specific default value for that attribute in this document type.
  • hasAttributeNS
    Whether this element has an attribute with the specified local name and namespace URI, or has a specific default value for that attribute in this document type.
  • removeAttribute
    Remove an attribute with the specified name.
  • removeAttributeNode
    Remove a specified attribute node.
  • removeAttributeNS
    Remove an attribute with the specified name and namespace URI.
  • setAttribute
    Set a new attribute on this element, with the specified name and value.
  • setAttributeNode
    Add an attribute node to this element.
  • setAttributeNodeNS
    Add a namespaced attribute node to this element.
  • setAttributeNS
    Set a new attribute on this element, with the specified local name, namespace URI and value.
  • tagName
    The qualified name of an element (including any namespace prefix).

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Related reference material

  • Node
    The Node interface is the primary data type for the DOM, and represents any single item in the tree, such as an Element or Text node.
  • createElement
    Creates an Element node of the specified type; if the element has default attributes in this document type, those attributes are automatically created and attached to the element.
  • createElementNS
    Creates an Element node of the specified type and namespaceURI; if the element has default attributes in this document type, those attributes are automatically created and attached to the element.
  • getElementById
    Returns the Element node with the specified ID.
  • getElementsByTagName
    Retrieves an ordered list of all elements with a given tag name, that are descendants of this document or element, in the linear order in which they appear in the DOM tree.
  • getElementsByTagNameNS
    Retrieves an ordered list of all elements with a given localName and namespaceURI, that are descendants of this document or element, in the linear order in which they appear in the DOM tree.

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