The Document object

The Document object represents the DOCUMENT.

Document Object Examples

Example	IE 5.5	NN 4.7	NN 6.2
Return all anchors in a document	X	X	X
Return the domain name of the document's server	X	X	X
Return the page's referrer	X	X	X
Return the document's title	X	X	X
Return the document's URL	X	X	X
Return a specified element	X		X
Return all elements with a specified name	X		X
Open a new document	X	X	X
Add text to a new document	X	X	X

Properties

Property	Description
anchors	Returns a collection of all anchor elements in a document
applets	Returns a collection of all object elements included in an applet
body	Returns the body or frameset element
cookie	Returns the cookies for the document
domain	Returns the domain name of the document's server
forms	Returns a collection of all the form elements in a document
images	Returns a collection of all the image elements in a document
links	Returns a collection of all the anchor elements in the document with the href attribute specified
referrer	Returns the URL of the previous page
title	Sets or returns the title of this document
URL	Returns the URL of the document

Methods

Method	Description
close()	Closes a document that was opened with the document.open() method
getElementById(ID)	Returns the element with a specified ID
getElementsByName(name)	Returns a collection of all elements with a specified name
open()	Opens a new document
write(text)	Writes a text to a document
writeln(text)	Writes a line of text to a document

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