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December 20, 2000 The Document's Virtual Root Node Tips: December 2000
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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You can use the DOM (Document Object Model) to model the whole document. At the root of document model is the document object. But this node is only virtual: you cannot prompt its type, name, or ID. You can access these properties through the documentElement object attribute. If you would query the name of document.documentElement:
you would get
You should get
The node
you would get the The code in this tip can be viewed by all DOM-supporting browsers such as IE 5+ and Netscape 6. Learn more about the DOM in Columns 40, The DOM, Part I: Analysis, through Column 47, A DOM-Based Snakes Game, Part II.
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