JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition

Name

Node: a node in a document tree — DOM Level 1 Core

Subinterfaces

Attr, CDATASection, CharacterData, Comment, Document, DocumentFragment, DocumentType, Element, ProcessingInstruction, Text

Constants

All Node objects implement one of the subinterfaces listed above. Every Node object has a nodeType property that specifies which subinterface it implements. These constants are the legal values for that property; their names are self-explanatory. Note that these are static properties of the Node( ) constructor function; they are not properties of individual Node objects. Also note that they are not supported by Internet Explorer. For compatibilty with IE, you must use numeric literals directly. For example, use 1 instead of Node.ELEMENT_NODE:

Node.ELEMENT_NODE = 1;                 // Element
Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE = 2;               // Attr
Node.TEXT_NODE = 3;                    // Text
Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE = 4;           // CDATASection
Node.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE = 7;  // ProcessingInstruction
Node.COMMENT_NODE = 8;                 // Comment
Node.DOCUMENT_NODE = 9;                // Document
Node.DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE = 10;          // DocumentType
Node.DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE = 11;      // DocumentFragment

Properties

readonly Attr[] attributes

If this is an Element node, the attributes property is a read-only, array-like object of Attr nodes that represent the attributes of that element. Note that this array is “live”: any changes to the attributes of this element are immediately visible through it.

Technically, the attributes[] array is a NamedNodeMap object. The NamedNodeMap interface ...