Name
HTMLDocument.write( ): append HTML text to an open document â DOM Level 0
Synopsis
void write(Stringtext);Arguments
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text The HTML text to be appended to the document.
Description
This method appends the specified HTML text to the document.
According to the DOM standard, this method takes a single string
argument. According to common practice, however, the write( ) method may be passed any number
of arguments. These arguments are converted to strings and appended,
in order, to the document.
Document.write( ) is
normally used in one of two ways. First, it can be invoked on the
current document within a <script> tag or within a function
that is executed while the document is being parsed. In this case,
the write( ) method writes its
HTML output as if that output appeared literally in the file at the
location of the code that invoked the method.
Second, you can use Document.write(
) to dynamically generate new documents in a window,
frame, or iframe other than the one in which the calling script is
running. If the target document is open, write( ) appends to that document. If the
document is not open, write( )
discards the existing document and opens a new (empty) one to which
it appends its arguments.
Once a document is open, Document.write( ) can append any amount of
output to the end of the document. When a new document has been
completely generated by this technique, the document must be closed
by calling Document.close( ).
Note that although the call to open(
) is optional, the ...
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