AwaitedDOM/ HTMLDocument

The HTMLDocument interface, which may be accessed through the Window.HTMLDocument property, extends the Window.HTMLDocument property to include methods and properties that are specific to HTML documents.

Properties

doc.anchors
W3C

Returns a list of all of the anchors in the document.

Type: SuperHTMLCollection

doc.body
W3C

Returns the <body> or <frameset> node of the current document.

Type: SuperHTMLElement

doc.characterSet
W3C

Returns the character set being used by the document.

Type: Promise<string>

doc.compatMode
W3C

Indicates whether the document is rendered in quirks or strict mode.

Type: Promise<string>

doc.contentType
W3C

Returns the Content-Type from the MIME Header of the current document.

Type: Promise<string>

Returns a semicolon-separated list of the cookies for that document or sets a single cookie.

Type: Promise<string>

doc.designMode
W3C

Gets/sets the ability to edit the whole document.

Type: Promise<string>

doc.dir
W3C

Gets/sets directionality (rtl/ltr) of the document.

Type: Promise<string>

doc.doctype
W3C

Returns the Document Type Definition (DTD) of the current document.

Type: DocumentType

doc.documentElement
W3C

Returns the Element that is a direct child of the document. For HTML documents, this is normally the HTMLHtmlElement object representing the document's <html> element.

Type: SuperElement

doc.documentURI
W3C

Returns the document location as a string.

Type: Promise<string>

doc.domain
W3C

Gets/sets the domain of the current document.

Type: Promise<string>

doc.embeds
W3C

Returns a list of the embedded <embed> elements within the current document.

Type: SuperHTMLCollection

doc.featurePolicy
W3C

Returns the FeaturePolicy interface which provides a simple API for introspecting the feature policies applied to a specific document.

Type: FeaturePolicy

doc.forms
W3C

Returns a list of the <form> elements within the current document.

Type: SuperHTMLCollection

doc.fullscreenEnabled
W3C

Indicates whether or not full-screen mode is available.

Type: Promise<boolean>

Returns the <head> element of the current document.

Type: HTMLHeadElement

doc.hidden
W3C

Returns a Boolean value indicating if the page is considered hidden or not.

Type: Promise<boolean>

doc.images
W3C

Returns a list of the images in the current document.

Type: SuperHTMLCollection

doc.implementation
W3C

Returns the DOM implementation associated with the current document.

Type: DOMImplementation

doc.lastModified
W3C

Returns the date on which the document was last modified.

Type: Promise<string>

Returns a list of all the hyperlinks in the document.

Type: SuperHTMLCollection

doc.location
W3C

Returns the URI of the current document.

Type: Location

doc.plugins
W3C

Returns a list of the available plugins.

Type: SuperHTMLCollection

doc.readyState
W3C

Returns loading status of the document.

Type: Promise<DocumentReadyState>

doc.referrer
W3C

Returns the URI of the page that linked to this page.

Type: Promise<string>

doc.scripts
W3C

Returns all the <script> elements on the document.

Type: SuperHTMLCollection

doc.scrollingElement
W3C

Returns a reference to the Element that scrolls the document.

Type: SuperElement

doc.title
W3C

Sets or gets the title of the current document.

Type: Promise<string>

doc.URL
W3C

Returns the document location as a string.

Type: Promise<string>

doc.visibilityState
W3C

Returns a string denoting the visibility state of the document. Possible values are visible, hidden, prerender, and unloaded.

Type: Promise<VisibilityState>

doc.baseURI
W3C

Returns a string representing the base URL of the document containing the Node.

Type: Promise<string>

doc.childNodes
W3C

Returns a live NodeList containing all the children of this node. NodeList being live means that if the children of the Node change, the NodeList object is automatically updated.

Type: SuperNodeList

doc.firstChild
W3C

Returns a Node representing the first direct child node of the node, or null if the node has no child.

Type: SuperNode

doc.isConnected
W3C

A boolean indicating whether or not the Node is connected (directly or indirectly) to the context object, e.g. the Document object in the case of the normal DOM, or the ShadowRoot in the case of a shadow DOM.

Type: Promise<boolean>

doc.lastChild
W3C

Returns a Node representing the last direct child node of the node, or null if the node has no child.

Type: SuperNode

doc.nextSibling
W3C

Returns a Node representing the next node in the tree, or null if there isn't such node.

Type: SuperNode

doc.nodeName
W3C

Returns a string containing the name of the Node. The structure of the name will differ with the node type. E.g. An HTMLElement will contain the name of the corresponding tag, like 'audio' for an HTMLAudioElement, a Text node will have the '#text' string, or a Document node will have the '#document' string.

Type: Promise<string>

doc.nodeType
W3C

Returns an unsigned short representing the type of the node. Possible values are:

NameValue
ELEMENT_NODE1
ATTRIBUTE_NODE 2
TEXT_NODE3
CDATA_SECTION_NODE4
ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE 5
ENTITY_NODE 6
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE7
COMMENT_NODE8
DOCUMENT_NODE9
DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE10
DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE11
NOTATION_NODE 12

Type: Promise<number>

doc.nodeValue
W3C

Returns / Sets the value of the current node.

Type: Promise<string>

doc.ownerDocument
W3C

Returns the Document that this node belongs to. If the node is itself a document, returns null.

Type: SuperDocument

doc.parentElement
W3C

Returns an Element that is the parent of this node. If the node has no parent, or if that parent is not an Element, this property returns null.

Type: SuperElement

doc.parentNode
W3C

Returns a Node that is the parent of this node. If there is no such node, like if this node is the top of the tree or if doesn't participate in a tree, this property returns null.

Type: SuperNode

doc.previousSibling
W3C

Returns a Node representing the previous node in the tree, or null if there isn't such node.

Type: SuperNode

doc.textContent
W3C

Returns / Sets the textual content of an element and all its descendants.

Type: Promise<string>

doc.activeElement
W3C

Returns the Element within the shadow tree that has focus.

Type: SuperElement

doc.fullscreenElement
W3C

Returns the Element that's currently in full screen mode for this document.

Type: SuperElement

doc.pointerLockElement
W3C

Returns the element set as the target for mouse events while the pointer is locked. It returns null if lock is pending, the pointer is unlocked, or if the target is in another document.

Type: SuperElement

doc.childElementCount
W3C

Returns the number of children of this ParentNode which are elements.

Type: Promise<number>

doc.children
W3C

Returns a live HTMLCollection containing all of the Element objects that are children of this ParentNode, omitting all of its non-element nodes.

Type: SuperHTMLCollection

doc.firstElementChild
W3C

Returns the first node which is both a child of this ParentNodeand is also an Element, or null if there is none.

Type: SuperElement

doc.lastElementChild
W3C

Returns the last node which is both a child of this ParentNodeand is an Element, or null if there is none.

Type: SuperElement

Methods

doc.exitFullscreen()
W3C

Requests that the element on this document which is currently being presented in full-screen mode be taken out of full-screen mode, restoring the previous state of the screen.

Returns: Promise<void>

doc.exitPointerLock()
W3C

Release the pointer lock.

Returns: Promise<void>

doc.getElementsByClassName(classNames)
W3C

Returns a list of elements with the given class name.

Arguments:

  • classNames string. names is a string representing the class name(s) to match; multiple class names are separated by whitespace

Returns: SuperHTMLCollection

doc.getElementsByName(elementName)
W3C

Returns a list of elements with the given name.

Arguments:

  • elementName string. name is the value of the name attribute of the element(s).

Returns: SuperNodeList

doc.getElementsByTagName(qualifiedName)
W3C

Returns a list of elements with the given tag name.

Arguments:

  • qualifiedName string. name is a string representing the name of the elements. The special string "*" represents all elements.

Returns: SuperHTMLCollection

doc.getElementsByTagNameNS(namespace, localName)
W3C

Returns a list of elements with the given tag name and namespace.

Arguments:

  • namespace string. namespace is the namespace URI of elements to look for (see element.namespaceURI).
  • localName string. name is either the local name of elements to look for or the special value *, which matches all elements (see element.localName).

Returns: SuperHTMLCollection

doc.hasFocus()
W3C

Returns true if the focus is currently located anywhere inside the specified document.

Returns: Promise<boolean>

doc.compareDocumentPosition(other)
W3C

Compares the position of the current node against another node in any other document.

Arguments:

  • other Node. The other Node with which to compare the first node’s document position.

Returns: Promise<number>

doc.contains(other)
W3C

Returns a boolean value indicating whether or not a node is a descendant of the calling node.

Arguments:

  • other Node. Needs content.

Returns: Promise<boolean>

doc.getRootNode(options?)
W3C

Returns the context object's root which optionally includes the shadow root if it is available. 

Arguments:

  • options GetRootNodeOptions. An object that sets options for getting the root node. The available options are:
    • composed: A `boolean` that indicates whether the shadow root should be returned (false, the default), or a root node beyond shadow root (true).

Returns: SuperNode

doc.hasChildNodes()
W3C

Returns a boolean indicating whether or not the element has any child nodes.

Returns: Promise<boolean>

doc.isDefaultNamespace(namespace)
W3C

Accepts a namespace URI as an argument and returns a boolean with a value of true if the namespace is the default namespace on the given node or false if not.

Arguments:

  • namespace string. namespaceURI is a string representing the namespace against which the element will be checked.

Returns: Promise<boolean>

doc.isEqualNode(otherNode)
W3C

Returns a boolean which indicates whether or not two nodes are of the same type and all their defining data points match.

Arguments:

  • otherNode Node. otherNode: The Node to compare equality with.

Returns: Promise<boolean>

doc.isSameNode(otherNode)
W3C

Returns a boolean value indicating whether or not the two nodes are the same (that is, they reference the same object).

Arguments:

  • otherNode Node. otherNode The Node to test against.

Returns: Promise<boolean>

doc.lookupNamespaceURI(prefix)
W3C

Accepts a prefix and returns the namespace URI associated with it on the given node if found (and null if not). Supplying null for the prefix will return the default namespace.

Arguments:

  • prefix string. The prefix to look for. If this parameter is null, the method will return the default namespace URI, if any.

Returns: Promise<string>

doc.lookupPrefix(namespace)
W3C

Returns a string containing the prefix for a given namespace URI, if present, and null if not. When multiple prefixes are possible, the result is implementation-dependent.

Arguments:

  • namespace string. Needs content.

Returns: Promise<string>

doc.normalize()
W3C

Clean up all the text nodes under this element (merge adjacent, remove empty).

Returns: Promise<void>

doc.caretPositionFromPoint(x, y)
W3C

Returns a CaretPosition object containing the DOM node containing the caret, and caret's character offset within that node.

Arguments:

  • x number. The horizontal coordinate of a point.
  • y number. The vertical coordinate of a point.

Returns: CaretPosition

doc.elementFromPoint(x, y)
W3C

Returns the topmost element at the specified coordinates.

Arguments:

  • x number. The horizontal coordinate of a point, relative to the left edge of the current viewport.
  • y number. The vertical coordinate of a point, relative to the top edge of the current viewport.

Returns: SuperElement

doc.getSelection()
W3C

Returns a Selection object representing the range of text selected by the user, or the current position of the caret.

Returns: Selection

doc.getElementById(elementId)
W3C

Needs content.

Arguments:

  • elementId string. Needs content.

Returns: SuperElement

doc.querySelector(selectors)
W3C

Returns the first Element with the current element as root that matches the specified group of selectors.

Arguments:

  • selectors string. A string containing one or more selectors to match against. This string must be a valid compound selector list supported by the browser; if it's not, a SyntaxError exception is thrown. See Locating DOM elements using selectors for more information about using selectors to identify elements. Multiple selectors may be specified by separating them using commas.

Returns: SuperElement

doc.querySelectorAll(selectors)
W3C

Returns a NodeList representing a list of elements with the current element as root that matches the specified group of selectors.

Arguments:

  • selectors string. A string containing one or more selectors to match against. This string must be a valid CSS selector string; if it's not, a SyntaxError exception is thrown. See Locating DOM elements using selectors for more information about using selectors to identify elements. Multiple selectors may be specified by separating them using commas.

Returns: SuperNodeList

doc.createExpression(expression, resolver?)
W3C

Creates a parsed XPath expression with resolved namespaces.

Arguments:

  • expression string. A string representing representing the XPath expression to be created.
  • resolver XPathNSResolver. Permits translation of all prefixes, including the xml namespace prefix, within the XPath expression into appropriate namespace URIs.

Returns: XPathExpression

doc.evaluate(expression, contextNode, resolver?, type?, result?)
W3C

Evaluates an XPath expression string and returns a result of the specified type if possible.

Arguments:

  • expression string. A string representing the XPath expression to be parsed and evaluated.
  • contextNode Node. A Node representing the context to use for evaluating the expression.
  • resolver XPathNSResolver. Permits translation of all prefixes, including the xml namespace prefix, within the XPath expression into appropriate namespace URIs.
  • type number. Specifies the type of result to be returned by evaluating the expression. This must be one of the XPathResult.Constants.
  • result XPathResult. Allows to specify a result object which may be reused and returned by this method. If this is specified as null or the implementation does not reuse the specified result, a new result object will be returned.

Returns: XPathResult

Unimplemented Specs

Properties

defaultViewfonts
onfullscreenchangeonfullscreenerror
onpointerlockchangeonpointerlockerror
onreadystatechangeonvisibilitychange
oncopyoncut
onpastefonts
onabortonanimationend
onanimationiterationonanimationstart
onauxclickonblur
oncanceloncanplay
oncanplaythroughonchange
onclickonclose
oncontextmenuoncuechange
ondblclickondrag
ondragendondragenter
ondragleaveondragover
ondragstartondrop
ondurationchangeonemptied
onendedonerror
onfocusonformdata
ongotpointercaptureoninput
oninvalidonkeydown
onkeypressonkeyup
onloadonloadeddata
onloadedmetadataonloadstart
onlostpointercaptureonmousedown
onmouseenteronmouseleave
onmousemoveonmouseout
onmouseoveronmouseup
onpauseonplay
onplayingonpointercancel
onpointerdownonpointerenter
onpointerleaveonpointermove
onpointeroutonpointerover
onpointeruponprogress
onratechangeonreset
onresizeonscroll
onseekedonseeking
onselectonselectionchange
onselectstartonstalled
onsubmitonsuspend
ontimeupdateontouchcancel
ontouchendontouchmove
ontouchstartontransitionend
onvolumechangeonwaiting
onwheel

Methods

adoptNode()captureEvents()
close()createAttribute()
createAttributeNS()createCDATASection()
createComment()createDocumentFragment()
createElement()createElementNS()
createEvent()createNodeIterator()
createProcessingInstruction()createRange()
createTextNode()createTreeWalker()
getSelection()importNode()
open()releaseEvents()
write()writeln()
appendChild()cloneNode()
insertBefore()removeChild()
replaceChild()addEventListener()
dispatchEvent()removeEventListener()
elementsFromPoint()append()
prepend()createNSResolver()

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