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Retrieves the type of the requested node. What's New for Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6
This property now applies to the
attribute object.
Syntax | HTML | N/A |
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| Scripting | [ iType = ] object.nodeType |
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Possible Values | iType | Integer that
receives one of the following values.| 1 | Element node. | | 3 | Text node. |
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The property is read-only.
The property has no default value.
Remarks If the node represents an attribute retrieved from the attributes collection, the nodeType returns null.
Examples
This example assigns the nodeType property of the body object to a variable. var iType = document.body.nodeType;
This example assigns the nodeType property of a node created with the createElement method to a variable. var oNode = document.createElement("B");
document.body.insertBefore(oNode);
var iType = oNode.nodeType;
Standards Information
property is defined in
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1  .
Applies To |
A,
ACRONYM,
ADDRESS,
APPLET,
AREA,
attribute,
B,
BASE,
BASEFONT,
BDO,
BGSOUND,
BIG,
BLOCKQUOTE,
BODY,
BR,
BUTTON,
CAPTION,
CENTER,
CITE,
CODE,
COL,
COLGROUP,
COMMENT,
DD,
DEL,
DFN,
DIR,
DIV,
DL,
DT,
EM,
EMBED,
FIELDSET,
FONT,
FORM,
FRAME,
FRAMESET,
HEAD,
hn,
HR,
HTML,
I,
IFRAME,
IMG,
INPUT type=button,
INPUT type=checkbox,
INPUT type=file,
INPUT type=hidden,
INPUT type=image,
INPUT type=password,
INPUT type=radio,
INPUT type=reset,
INPUT type=submit,
INPUT type=text,
INS,
KBD,
LABEL,
LEGEND,
LI,
LINK,
LISTING,
MAP,
MARQUEE,
MENU,
nextID,
OBJECT,
OL,
OPTION,
P,
PLAINTEXT,
PRE,
Q,
S,
SAMP,
SCRIPT,
SELECT,
SMALL,
SPAN,
STRIKE,
STRONG,
SUB,
SUP,
TABLE,
TBODY,
TD,
TEXTAREA,
TextNode,
TFOOT,
TH,
THEAD,
TITLE,
TR,
TT,
U,
UL,
VAR,
XMP | |
See Also About the W3C Document Object Model
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