In HTML and XML, an element is an individual component of a document. Documents are composed of a tree of elements and other nodes, such as text nodes. Each element can have attributes specified. Elements can also have content, including other elements and text. Elements often represent semantics, or meaning. For example, the <title> element represents the title of the document. In code, elements are represented by tags.
Element/~
Every instance of this interface will, in practice, also implement EventTarget, so those members are also documented here.
Properties[]
These properties are available on all Element instances.
Methods[]
These methods are available on all Element instances.
addEventListener[]
| Data type | function |
|---|---|
| Return type | void |
| Parameter list | type (string), listener (function), useCapture (boolean) |
| Standard | DOM Level 2 Events, DOM Level 3 Events |
| Documentation | Mozilla Microsoft |
Registers listener to be called when an event of the specified type occurs on this element or a descendant. (type does not start with "on.") useCapture indicates which phases the listener may be invoked in. When in doubt, pass false as the third parameter; see here for a detailed explanation.
For Internet Explorer 8 and before, see attachEvent below.
attachEvent[]
| Data type | function |
|---|---|
| Return type | boolean |
| Parameter list | type (string), listener (function) |
| Standard | none |
| Documentation | Microsoft |
Registers listener to be called when an event of the specified type occurs on this element or a descendant. (type does start with "on.") This method is essentially equivalent to calling addEventListener with false as the third parameter, except that this === window is always true within the listener, and event is a global variable.
getElementsByTagName[]
| Data type | function |
|---|---|
| Return type | NodeList |
| Parameter list | tagName (string) |
| Standard | DOM Level 1 Core, DOM Level 2 Core |
| Documentation | Mozilla, Microsoft |
Finds every descendant of this element which has the specified tagName and is contained by the current element. The asterisk ("*") matches all elements below this one.
See also[]
getElementsByTagNameNS[]
| Data type | function |
|---|---|
| Return type | NodeList |
| Parameter list | tagName (string), namespace (string) |
| Standard | DOM Level 2 Core |
| Documentation | Mozilla |
Finds every descendant of this element which has the specified tagName and namespace and is contained by the current element. If the name is only the asterisk ("*"), all elements below this one in the specified namespace will be returned.
See also[]
Document.getElementsByTagNameNS
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