21.3. DOM Node Properties and Methods
The DOM includes several JavaScript bindings that can be used to navigate a document's DOM. A subset of those bindings, used in JavaScript as properties and methods, is listed in the following two tables. The first table describes JavaScript's properties.
A full list of DOM JavaScript bindings can be found on the W3C's Document Object Model Level 1 pages, at http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-DOM-Level-1-20000929/ecma-script-language-binding.html.
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| attributes | This read-only property returns a named node mapNamedNodeMap containing the specified node's attributes. |
| childNodes | This read-only property returns a node list containing all the children of the specified node. |
| firstChild | This read-only property returns the first child node of the specified node. |
| lastChild | This read-only property returns the last child node of the specified node. |
| nextSibling | This read-only property returns the next sibling of the specified node. |
| nodeName | This read-only property returns a string containing the name of the node, which is typically the name of the element (P, DIV, TABLE, and so on). |
| nodeType | This read-only property returns a number corresponding to the node type (1 = element, 2 = text). |
| nodeValue | This property returns a string containing the contents of the node and is only valid for text nodes. |
| ownerDocument | This read-only property returns the root document node object of the specified node. |
| parentNode | This read-only property returns the parent node of the specified ... |
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