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Document Object

Document is the parent object of numerous other objects, such as "images", "forms" etc.

Properties

Properties	Description
alinkColor	Specifies the color of activated links in the document (Alink attribute).
all[]	IE4+ exclusive array that contains all of the elements within the document. Use document.all["elementID"] or document.all.elementID to access an element.
anchors[]	An array containing all of the anchors in the document.
applets[]	An array containing all of the applets in the document.
bgColor	Specifies the background color of the document.
cookie	A string containing the name/value pair of cookies in the document.
domain	Specifies the domain name of the server that served a document. Used for security purposes.
embeds[]	An array containing all of the plug-ins in the document, represented using the <embed> tag.
fgColor	Specifies the default text color of the document (text attribute).
fileSize	Returns the file size of the current document. In IE Windows, a numeric string is returned, while in IE Mac, a number instead. IE only property.
forms[]	An array containing all of the forms on the page.
images[]	An array containing all of the images on the page.
lastModified	Specifies the last modified date of the document, as reported by the web server.
linkColor	Specifies the color of unvisited links in the document (link attribute).
links[]	An array containing all of the links on the page.
plugins[]	Same as embeds[] object.
readyState	IE4+ exclusive property that specifies the loading status of the document. It returns one of the below 4 values: 1) uninitialized- The document hasn't started loading yet. 2) loading- The document is loading. 3) interactive- The document has loaded enough whereby user can interact with it. 4) complete- The document has fully loaded.
referrer	A string that specifies the URL in which the user derived from to reach the current, usually via a link.
title	Specifies the title of the document. Read/write in modern browsers.
URL	A string that specifies the complete URL of the document.
vlinkColor	Specifies the color of visited links in the document (vlink attribute).

Methods

Note: "[]" surrounding a parameter below means the parameter is optional.

Methods	Description
close()	Closes a document stream opened using document.open().
getElementById("ID")	A cross browser (IE5/NS6+) DOM method for accessing any element on the page via its ID attribute.
open([mineType])	Opens a document stream in preparation for document.write() to write to it. Use the optional "mineType" argument (default is text/html) to specify a specific minetype, such as "image/gif." Example(s).
write("string")	Writes to the document (as it's loading) or document stream the "string" entered. Example(s).
writeln("string")	Writes to the document (as it's loading) or document stream the "string" entered and inserts a newline character at the end.

Examples

open([mineType])

This example opens a blank window and writes to it:

win2=window.open("") //open blank window and write to it
win2.document.open() //open document stream
win2.document.write("<b>Some text</b>")
win2.document.close()

write("string")

Writes out the current document's URL while the page is loaded:

document.write("This page\'s URL is "+document.URL)