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HTML DOM Document Object

Document Object

The Document object represents the entire HTML document and can be used to access all elements in a page.

The Document object is part of the Window object and is accessed through the window.document property.

IE: Internet Explorer, F: Firefox, O: Opera, W3C: World Wide Web Consortium (Internet Standard).

Document Object Collections

Collection	Description	IE	F	O	W3C
anchors[]	Returns a reference to all Anchor objects in the document	4	1	9	Yes
forms[]	Returns a reference to all Form objects in the document	4	1	9	Yes
images[]	Returns a reference to all Image objects in the document	4	1	9	Yes
links[]	Returns a reference to all Area and Link objects in the document	4	1	9	Yes

Document Object Properties

Property	Description	IE	F	O	W3C
body	Gives direct access to the <body> element
cookie	Sets or returns all cookies associated with the current document	4	1	9	Yes
domain	Returns the domain name for the current document	4	1	9	Yes
lastModified	Returns the date and time a document was last modified	4	1	No	No
referrer	Returns the URL of the document that loaded the current document	4	1	9	Yes
title	Returns the title of the current document	4	1	9	Yes
URL	Returns the URL of the current document	4	1	9	Yes

Document Object Methods

Method	Description	IE	F	O	W3C
close()	Closes an output stream opened with the document.open() method, and displays the collected data	4	1	9	Yes
getElementById()	Returns a reference to the first object with the specified id	5	1	9	Yes
getElementsByName()	Returns a collection of objects with the specified name	5	1	9	Yes
getElementsByTagName()	Returns a collection of objects with the specified tagname	5	1	9	Yes
open()	Opens a stream to collect the output from any document.write() or document.writeln() methods	4	1	9	Yes
write()	Writes HTML expressions or JavaScript code to a document	4	1	9	Yes
writeln()	Identical to the write() method, with the addition of writing a new line character after each expression	4	1	9	Yes

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