Interface DocumentFragment

The DocumentFragment interface represents a minimal document object that has no parent.

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interface DocumentFragment {
    ATTRIBUTE_NODE: 2;
    baseURI: string;
    CDATA_SECTION_NODE: 4;
    childElementCount: number;
    childNodes: NodeListOf<ChildNode>;
    children: HTMLCollection;
    COMMENT_NODE: 8;
    DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE: 11;
    DOCUMENT_NODE: 9;
    DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY: 16;
    DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS: 8;
    DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED: 1;
    DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING: 4;
    DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC: 32;
    DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING: 2;
    DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE: 10;
    ELEMENT_NODE: 1;
    ENTITY_NODE: 6;
    ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE: 5;
    firstChild: ChildNode | null;
    firstElementChild: Element | null;
    isConnected: boolean;
    lastChild: ChildNode | null;
    lastElementChild: Element | null;
    nextSibling: ChildNode | null;
    nodeName: string;
    nodeType: number;
    nodeValue: string | null;
    NOTATION_NODE: 12;
    ownerDocument: Document;
    parentElement: HTMLElement | null;
    parentNode: ParentNode | null;
    previousSibling: ChildNode | null;
    PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE: 7;
    TEXT_NODE: 3;
    get textContent(): string;
    set textContent(value: string | null): void;
    addEventListener(
        type: string,
        callback: EventListenerOrEventListenerObject | null,
        options?: boolean | AddEventListenerOptions,
    ): void;
    append(...nodes: (string | Node)[]): void;
    appendChild<T extends Node>(node: T): T;
    cloneNode(subtree?: boolean): Node;
    compareDocumentPosition(other: Node): number;
    contains(other: Node | null): boolean;
    dispatchEvent(event: Event): boolean;
    getElementById(elementId: string): HTMLElement | null;
    getRootNode(options?: GetRootNodeOptions): Node;
    hasChildNodes(): boolean;
    insertBefore<T extends Node>(node: T, child: Node | null): T;
    isDefaultNamespace(namespace: string | null): boolean;
    isEqualNode(otherNode: Node | null): boolean;
    isSameNode(otherNode: Node | null): boolean;
    lookupNamespaceURI(prefix: string | null): string | null;
    lookupPrefix(namespace: string | null): string | null;
    normalize(): void;
    prepend(...nodes: (string | Node)[]): void;
    querySelector<K extends keyof HTMLElementTagNameMap>(
        selectors: K,
    ): HTMLElementTagNameMap[K] | null;
    querySelector<K extends keyof SVGElementTagNameMap>(
        selectors: K,
    ): SVGElementTagNameMap[K] | null;
    querySelector<K extends keyof MathMLElementTagNameMap>(
        selectors: K,
    ): MathMLElementTagNameMap[K] | null;
    querySelector<K extends keyof HTMLElementDeprecatedTagNameMap>(
        selectors: K,
    ): HTMLElementDeprecatedTagNameMap[K] | null;
    querySelector<E extends Element = Element>(selectors: string): E | null;
    querySelectorAll<K extends keyof HTMLElementTagNameMap>(
        selectors: K,
    ): NodeListOf<HTMLElementTagNameMap[K]>;
    querySelectorAll<K extends keyof SVGElementTagNameMap>(
        selectors: K,
    ): NodeListOf<SVGElementTagNameMap[K]>;
    querySelectorAll<K extends keyof MathMLElementTagNameMap>(
        selectors: K,
    ): NodeListOf<MathMLElementTagNameMap[K]>;
    querySelectorAll<K extends keyof HTMLElementDeprecatedTagNameMap>(
        selectors: K,
    ): NodeListOf<HTMLElementDeprecatedTagNameMap[K]>;
    querySelectorAll<E extends Element = Element>(
        selectors: string,
    ): NodeListOf<E>;
    removeChild<T extends Node>(child: T): T;
    removeEventListener(
        type: string,
        callback: EventListenerOrEventListenerObject | null,
        options?: boolean | EventListenerOptions,
    ): void;
    replaceChild<T extends Node>(node: Node, child: T): T;
    replaceChildren(...nodes: (string | Node)[]): void;
}
Hierarchy
Index

Properties

ATTRIBUTE_NODE baseURI CDATA_SECTION_NODE childElementCount childNodes children COMMENT_NODE DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE DOCUMENT_NODE DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE ELEMENT_NODE ENTITY_NODE ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE firstChild firstElementChild isConnected lastChild lastElementChild nextSibling nodeName nodeType nodeValue NOTATION_NODE ownerDocument parentElement parentNode previousSibling PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE TEXT_NODE

Accessors

textContent

Methods

addEventListener append appendChild cloneNode compareDocumentPosition contains dispatchEvent getElementById getRootNode hasChildNodes insertBefore isDefaultNamespace isEqualNode isSameNode lookupNamespaceURI lookupPrefix normalize prepend querySelector querySelectorAll removeChild removeEventListener replaceChild replaceChildren

Properties

ATTRIBUTE_NODE: 2
baseURI: string

The read-only baseURI property of the Node interface returns the absolute base URL of the document containing the node.

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CDATA_SECTION_NODE: 4

node is a CDATASection node.

childElementCount: number

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childNodes: NodeListOf<ChildNode>

The read-only childNodes property of the Node interface returns a live the first child node is assigned index 0.

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children: HTMLCollection

Returns the child elements.

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COMMENT_NODE: 8

node is a Comment node.

DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE: 11

node is a DocumentFragment node.

DOCUMENT_NODE: 9

node is a document.

DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY: 16

Set when other is a descendant of node.

DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS: 8

Set when other is an ancestor of node.

DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED: 1

Set when node and other are not in the same tree.

DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING: 4

Set when other is following node.

DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC: 32
DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING: 2

Set when other is preceding node.

DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE: 10

node is a doctype.

ELEMENT_NODE: 1

node is an element.

ENTITY_NODE: 6
ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE: 5
firstChild: ChildNode | null

The read-only firstChild property of the Node interface returns the node's first child in the tree, or null if the node has no children.

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firstElementChild: Element | null

Returns the first child that is an element, and null otherwise.

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isConnected: boolean

The read-only isConnected property of the Node interface returns a boolean indicating whether the node is connected (directly or indirectly) to a Document object.

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lastChild: ChildNode | null

The read-only lastChild property of the Node interface returns the last child of the node, or null if there are no child nodes.

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lastElementChild: Element | null

Returns the last child that is an element, and null otherwise.

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nextSibling: ChildNode | null

The read-only nextSibling property of the Node interface returns the node immediately following the specified one in their parent's Node.childNodes, or returns null if the specified node is the last child in the parent element.

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nodeName: string

The read-only nodeName property of Node returns the name of the current node as a string.

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nodeType: number

The read-only nodeType property of a Node interface is an integer that identifies what the node is.

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nodeValue: string | null

The nodeValue property of the Node interface returns or sets the value of the current node.

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NOTATION_NODE: 12
ownerDocument: Document

The read-only ownerDocument property of the Node interface returns the top-level document object of the node.

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parentElement: HTMLElement | null

The read-only parentElement property of Node interface returns the DOM node's parent Element, or null if the node either has no parent, or its parent isn't a DOM Element.

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parentNode: ParentNode | null

The read-only parentNode property of the Node interface returns the parent of the specified node in the DOM tree.

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previousSibling: ChildNode | null

The read-only previousSibling property of the Node interface returns the node immediately preceding the specified one in its parent's or null if the specified node is the first in that list.

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PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE: 7

node is a ProcessingInstruction node.

ReadonlyTEXT_NODE

TEXT_NODE: 3

node is a Text node.

Accessors

  • get textContent(): string

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    Returns string

  • set textContent(value: string | null): void

    The textContent property of the Node interface represents the text content of the node and its descendants.

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    Parameters

    • value: string | null

    Returns void

Methods

  • Inserts nodes after the last child of node, while replacing strings in nodes with equivalent Text nodes.

    Throws a "HierarchyRequestError" DOMException if the constraints of the node tree are violated.

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    Parameters

    • ...nodes: (string | Node)[]

    Returns void

  • The appendChild() method of the Node interface adds a node to the end of the list of children of a specified parent node.

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    Type Parameters

    Parameters

    • node: T

    Returns T

  • The cloneNode() method of the Node interface returns a duplicate of the node on which this method was called.

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    Parameters

    • Optionalsubtree: boolean

    Returns Node

  • The compareDocumentPosition() method of the Node interface reports the position of its argument node relative to the node on which it is called.

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    Parameters

    Returns number

  • The contains() method of the Node interface returns a boolean value indicating whether a node is a descendant of a given node, that is the node itself, one of its direct children (Node.childNodes), one of the children's direct children, and so on.

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    Parameters

    Returns boolean

  • The dispatchEvent() method of the EventTarget sends an Event to the object, (synchronously) invoking the affected event listeners in the appropriate order.

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    Parameters

    • event: Event

    Returns boolean

  • The hasChildNodes() method of the Node interface returns a boolean value indicating whether the given Node has child nodes or not.

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    Returns boolean

  • The insertBefore() method of the Node interface inserts a node before a reference node as a child of a specified parent node.

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    Type Parameters

    Parameters

    • node: T
    • child: Node | null

    Returns T

  • The isDefaultNamespace() method of the Node interface accepts a namespace URI as an argument.

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    Parameters

    • namespace: string | null

    Returns boolean

  • The isEqualNode() method of the Node interface tests whether two nodes are equal.

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    Parameters

    • otherNode: Node | null

    Returns boolean

  • The isSameNode() method of the Node interface is a legacy alias the for the === strict equality operator.

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    Parameters

    • otherNode: Node | null

    Returns boolean

  • The lookupNamespaceURI() method of the Node interface takes a prefix as parameter and returns the namespace URI associated with it on the given node if found (and null if not).

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    Parameters

    • prefix: string | null

    Returns string | null

  • The lookupPrefix() method of the Node interface returns a string containing the prefix for a given namespace URI, if present, and null if not.

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    Parameters

    • namespace: string | null

    Returns string | null

  • The normalize() method of the Node interface puts the specified node and all of its sub-tree into a normalized form.

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    Returns void

  • Inserts nodes before the first child of node, while replacing strings in nodes with equivalent Text nodes.

    Throws a "HierarchyRequestError" DOMException if the constraints of the node tree are violated.

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    Parameters

    • ...nodes: (string | Node)[]

    Returns void

  • The removeChild() method of the Node interface removes a child node from the DOM and returns the removed node.

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    Type Parameters

    Parameters

    • child: T

    Returns T

  • The removeEventListener() method of the EventTarget interface removes an event listener previously registered with EventTarget.addEventListener() from the target.

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    Parameters

    Returns void

  • The replaceChild() method of the Node interface replaces a child node within the given (parent) node.

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    Type Parameters

    Parameters

    Returns T

  • Replace all children of node with nodes, while replacing strings in nodes with equivalent Text nodes.

    Throws a "HierarchyRequestError" DOMException if the constraints of the node tree are violated.

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    Parameters

    • ...nodes: (string | Node)[]

    Returns void

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