Every XML and HTML document in an HTML UA is represented by a
Document object. [DOMCORE]
The document's address is an absolute URL
that is set when the Document is created. The
document's current address is an absolute URL
that can change during the lifetime of the Document,
for example when the user navigates to
a fragment identifier on the
page or when the pushState() method is called
with a new URL. The document's
current address must be set to the document's
address when the Document is created.
Interactive user agents typically expose the document's current address in their user interface.
When a Document is created by a script using the createDocument()
or createHTMLDocument()
APIs, the document's address is the same as the
document's address of the script's document.
Document objects are assumed to be XML
documents unless they are flagged as being HTML
documents when they are created. Whether a document is an
HTML document or an XML document affects the behavior of
certain APIs and the case-sensitivity of some selectors.
Each Document object has a reload override
flag that is originally unset. The flag is set by the document.open() and document.write() methods in certain
situations. When the flag is set, the Document also has
a reload override buffer which is a Unicode string that
is used as the source of the document when it is reloaded.
When the user agent is to perform an overridden reload, it must act as follows:
Let source be the value of the browsing context's active document's reload override buffer.
Navigate the
browsing context to a resource whose source is source. When the navigate algorithm
creates a Document object for this purpose, set that
Document's reload override flag and set
its reload override buffer to source.
All Document objects (in user agents implementing
this specification) must also implement
the HTMLDocument interface, available using
binding-specific methods. (This is the case whether or not the
document in question is an HTML
document or indeed whether it contains any HTML
elements at all.) Document objects must also implement the document-level interface
of any other namespaces that the UA supports.
For example, if an HTML implementation also
supports SVG, then the Document object implements both
HTMLDocument and SVGDocument.
Because the HTMLDocument interface is
now obtained using binding-specific casting methods instead of
simply being the primary interface of the document object, it is no
longer defined as inheriting from Document.
[OverrideBuiltins]
interface HTMLDocument {
// resource metadata management
[PutForwards=href] readonly attribute Location location;
readonly attribute DOMString URL;
attribute DOMString domain;
readonly attribute DOMString referrer;
attribute DOMString cookie;
readonly attribute DOMString lastModified;
readonly attribute DOMString compatMode;
attribute DOMString charset;
readonly attribute DOMString characterSet;
readonly attribute DOMString defaultCharset;
readonly attribute DOMString readyState;
// DOM tree accessors
getter any (in DOMString name);
attribute DOMString title;
attribute DOMString dir;
attribute HTMLElement body;
readonly attribute HTMLHeadElement head;
readonly attribute HTMLCollection images;
readonly attribute HTMLCollection embeds;
readonly attribute HTMLCollection plugins;
readonly attribute HTMLCollection links;
readonly attribute HTMLCollection forms;
readonly attribute HTMLCollection scripts;
NodeList getElementsByName(in DOMString elementName);
NodeList getElementsByClassName(in DOMString classNames);
// dynamic markup insertion
attribute DOMString innerHTML;
HTMLDocument open(in optional DOMString type, in optional DOMString replace);
WindowProxy open(in DOMString url, in DOMString name, in DOMString features, in optional boolean replace);
void close();
void write(in DOMString... text);
void writeln(in DOMString... text);
// user interaction
readonly attribute WindowProxy defaultView;
readonly attribute Element activeElement;
boolean hasFocus();
attribute DOMString designMode;
boolean execCommand(in DOMString commandId);
boolean execCommand(in DOMString commandId, in boolean showUI);
boolean execCommand(in DOMString commandId, in boolean showUI, in DOMString value);
boolean queryCommandEnabled(in DOMString commandId);
boolean queryCommandIndeterm(in DOMString commandId);
boolean queryCommandState(in DOMString commandId);
boolean queryCommandSupported(in DOMString commandId);
DOMString queryCommandValue(in DOMString commandId);
readonly attribute HTMLCollection commands;
// event handler IDL attributes
attribute Function onabort;
attribute Function onblur;
attribute Function oncanplay;
attribute Function oncanplaythrough;
attribute Function onchange;
attribute Function onclick;
attribute Function oncontextmenu;
attribute Function oncuechange;
attribute Function ondblclick;
attribute Function ondrag;
attribute Function ondragend;
attribute Function ondragenter;
attribute Function ondragleave;
attribute Function ondragover;
attribute Function ondragstart;
attribute Function ondrop;
attribute Function ondurationchange;
attribute Function onemptied;
attribute Function onended;
attribute Function onerror;
attribute Function onfocus;
attribute Function oninput;
attribute Function oninvalid;
attribute Function onkeydown;
attribute Function onkeypress;
attribute Function onkeyup;
attribute Function onload;
attribute Function onloadeddata;
attribute Function onloadedmetadata;
attribute Function onloadstart;
attribute Function onmousedown;
attribute Function onmousemove;
attribute Function onmouseout;
attribute Function onmouseover;
attribute Function onmouseup;
attribute Function onmousewheel;
attribute Function onpause;
attribute Function onplay;
attribute Function onplaying;
attribute Function onprogress;
attribute Function onratechange;
attribute Function onreadystatechange;
attribute Function onreset;
attribute Function onscroll;
attribute Function onseeked;
attribute Function onseeking;
attribute Function onselect;
attribute Function onshow;
attribute Function onstalled;
attribute Function onsubmit;
attribute Function onsuspend;
attribute Function ontimeupdate;
attribute Function onvolumechange;
attribute Function onwaiting;
};
Document implements HTMLDocument;Since the HTMLDocument interface holds methods and
attributes related to a number of disparate features, the members of
this interface are described in various different sections.
User agents must raise a
SECURITY_ERR exception whenever any of the members of
an HTMLDocument object are accessed by scripts whose
effective script origin is not the same as the Document's effective
script origin.
URLReturns the document's address.
referrerReturns the
address of the Document from which the user
navigated to this one, unless it was blocked or there was no such
document, in which case it returns the empty string.
The noreferrer link
type can be used to block the referrer.
The URL
attribute must return the document's address.
The referrer attribute
must return either the current address of the active document
of the source browsing context at the time the
navigation was started (that is, the page which navigated the browsing context
to the current document), with any <fragment> component removed; or
the empty string if there is no such originating page, or if the UA
has been configured not to report referrers in this case, or if the
navigation was initiated for a hyperlink with a noreferrer keyword.
In the case of HTTP, the referrer IDL attribute will
match the Referer (sic) header
that was sent when fetching the current
page.
Typically user agents are configured to not report
referrers in the case where the referrer uses an encrypted protocol
and the current page does not (e.g. when navigating from an https: page to an http:
page).
cookie [ = value ]Returns the HTTP cookies that apply to the
Document. If there are no cookies or cookies can't be
applied to this resource, the empty string will be returned.
Can be set, to add a new cookie to the element's set of HTTP cookies.
If the contents are sandboxed into a unique origin (in an
iframe with the sandbox attribute) or the
resource was labeled as text/html-sandboxed, a
SECURITY_ERR exception will be thrown on getting and
setting.
The cookie
attribute represents the cookies of the resource from which the
Document was created.
A Document object that falls into one of the
following conditions is a cookie-free Document
object:
Document that has no browsing
context.Document whose address does not use a server-based naming
authority.On getting, if the document is a
cookie-free Document object, then the user
agent must return the empty string. Otherwise, if the
Document's origin is not a
scheme/host/port tuple, the user agent must raise a
SECURITY_ERR exception. Otherwise, the user agent must
first obtain the storage mutex and then return the
cookie-string for the document's address for a
"non-HTTP" API, decoded as UTF-8, with error handling.
[COOKIES]
On setting, if the document is a cookie-free
Document object, then the user agent must do
nothing. Otherwise, if the Document's
origin is not a scheme/host/port tuple, the user agent
must raise a SECURITY_ERR exception. Otherwise, the
user agent must obtain the storage mutex and then act
as it would when receiving a set-cookie-string for
the document's address via a "non-HTTP" API, consisting
of the new value encoded as UTF-8. [COOKIES] [RFC3629]
Since the cookie attribute is accessible
across frames, the path restrictions on cookies are only a tool to
help manage which cookies are sent to which parts of the site, and
are not in any way a security feature.
lastModifiedReturns the date of the last modification to the document, as
reported by the server, in the form "MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss", in the user's local
time zone.
If the last modification date is not known, the current time is returned instead.
The lastModified
attribute, on getting, must return the date and time of the
Document's source file's last modification, in the
user's local time zone, in the following format:
All the numeric components above, other than the year, must be given as two digits in the range U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) to U+0039 DIGIT NINE (9) representing the number in base ten, zero-padded if necessary. The year must be given as the shortest possible string of four or more digits in the range U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0) to U+0039 DIGIT NINE (9) representing the number in base ten, zero-padded if necessary.
The Document's source file's last modification date
and time must be derived from relevant features of the networking
protocols used, e.g. from the value of the HTTP Last-Modified header of the
document, or from metadata in the file system for local files. If
the last modification date and time are not known, the attribute
must return the current date and time in the above format.
compatModeIn a conforming document, returns the string "CSS1Compat". (In quirks mode
documents, returns the string "BackCompat",
but a conforming document can never trigger quirks
mode.)
A Document is always set to one of three modes:
no-quirks mode, the default; quirks mode, used
typically for legacy documents; and limited-quirks mode,
also known as "almost standards" mode. The mode is only ever changed
from the default by the HTML parser, based on the
presence, absence, or value of the DOCTYPE string.
The compatMode IDL
attribute must return the literal string "CSS1Compat" unless the document has been set to
quirks mode by the HTML parser, in which
case it must instead return the literal string "BackCompat".
charset [ = value ]Returns the document's character encoding.
Can be set, to dynamically change the document's character encoding.
New values that are not IANA-registered aliases supported by the user agent are ignored.
characterSetReturns the document's character encoding.
defaultCharsetReturns what might be the user agent's default character encoding. (The user agent might return another character encoding altogether, e.g. to protect the user's privacy, or if the user agent doesn't use a single default encoding.)
Documents have an associated character encoding. When a Document
object is created, the document's character encoding
must be initialized to UTF-16. Various algorithms during page
loading affect this value, as does the charset setter. [IANACHARSET]
The charset
IDL attribute must, on getting, return the preferred MIME
name of the document's character encoding. On
setting, if the new value is an IANA-registered alias for a
character encoding supported by the user agent, the document's
character encoding must be set to that character
encoding. (Otherwise, nothing happens.)
The characterSet
IDL attribute must, on getting, return the preferred MIME
name of the document's character encoding.
The defaultCharset
IDL attribute must, on getting, return the preferred MIME
name of a character encoding, possibly the user's default
encoding, or an encoding associated with the user's current
geographical location, or any arbitrary encoding name.
readyStateReturns "loading" while the Document is loading, "interactive" once it is finished parsing but still loading sub-resources, and "complete" once it has loaded.
The readystatechange event fires on the Document object when this value changes.
Each document has a current document readiness. When a
Document object is created, it must have its
current document readiness set to the string "loading"
if the document is associated with an HTML parser or an
XML parser, or to the string "complete" otherwise.
Various algorithms during page loading affect this value. When the
value is set, the user agent must fire a simple event
named readystatechange
at the Document object.
A Document is said to have an active
parser if it is associated with an HTML parser or
an XML parser that has not yet been stopped or aborted.
The readyState IDL
attribute must, on getting, return the current document
readiness.
The html element of a document is the
document's root element, if there is one and it's an
html element, or null otherwise.
headReturns the head element.
The head element of a document is the
first head element that is a child of the
html element, if there is one, or null
otherwise.
The head
attribute, on getting, must return the head
element of the document (a head element or
null).
title [ = value ]Returns the document's title, as given by the
title element.
Can be set, to update the document's title. If there is no
head element,
the new value is ignored.
In SVG documents, the SVGDocument interface's
title attribute takes
precedence.
The title element of a document is the
first title element in the document (in tree order), if
there is one, or null otherwise.
The title attribute must,
on getting, run the following algorithm:
If the root element is an svg
element in the "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
namespace, and the user agent supports SVG, then return the value
that would have been returned by the IDL attribute of the same name
on the SVGDocument interface. [SVG]
Otherwise, let value be a concatenation
of the data of all the child text
nodes of the title element, in
tree order, or the empty string if the
title element is null.
Replace any sequence of one or more consecutive space characters in value with a single U+0020 SPACE character.
Remove any leading or trailing space characters in value.
Return value.
On setting, the following algorithm must be run. Mutation events must be fired as appropriate.
If the root element is an svg
element in the "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
namespace, and the user agent supports SVG, then the setter must
defer to the setter for the IDL attribute of the same name on the
SVGDocument interface (if it is readonly, then this
will raise an exception). Stop the algorithm here. [SVG]
title element is null and
the head element is null, then the
attribute must do nothing. Stop the algorithm here.title element is null, then a
new title element must be created and appended to
the head element. Let element be that element. Otherwise, let element be the title
element.Text node whose data is the new value
being assigned must be appended to element.The title attribute on
the HTMLDocument interface should shadow the attribute
of the same name on the SVGDocument interface when the
user agent supports both HTML and SVG. [SVG]
body [ = value ]Returns the body element.
Can be set, to replace the body element.
If the new value is not a body or frameset element, this will throw a HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR exception.
The body element of a document is the first child of
the html element that is either a
body element or a frameset element. If
there is no such element, it is null. If the body
element is null, then when the specification requires that events be
fired at "the body element", they must instead be fired at the
Document object.
The body
attribute, on getting, must return the body element of
the document (either a body element, a
frameset element, or null). On setting, the following
algorithm must be run:
body or
frameset element, then raise a
HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR exception and abort these
steps.replaceChild() method had been
called with the new value and the
incumbent body element as its two arguments respectively,
then abort these steps.imagesReturns an HTMLCollection of the img elements in the Document.
embedspluginsReturn an HTMLCollection of the embed elements in the Document.
linksReturns an HTMLCollection of the a and area elements in the Document that have href attributes.
formsReturn an HTMLCollection of the form elements in the Document.
scriptsReturn an HTMLCollection of the script elements in the Document.
The images
attribute must return an HTMLCollection rooted at the
Document node, whose filter matches only
img elements.
The embeds
attribute must return an HTMLCollection rooted at the
Document node, whose filter matches only
embed elements.
The plugins
attribute must return the same object as that returned by the embeds attribute.
The links
attribute must return an HTMLCollection rooted at the
Document node, whose filter matches only a
elements with href
attributes and area elements with href attributes.
The forms
attribute must return an HTMLCollection rooted at the
Document node, whose filter matches only
form elements.
The scripts
attribute must return an HTMLCollection rooted at the
Document node, whose filter matches only
script elements.
getElementsByName(name)Returns a NodeList of elements in the
Document that have a name
attribute with the value name.
getElementsByClassName(classes)getElementsByClassName(classes)Returns a NodeList of the elements in the object
on which the method was invoked (a Document or an
Element) that have all the classes given by classes.
The classes argument is interpreted as a space-separated list of classes.
The getElementsByName(name) method takes a string name, and must return a live
NodeList containing all the HTML elements
in that document that have a name attribute
whose value is equal to the name argument (in a
case-sensitive manner), in tree order.
When the method is invoked on a Document object again
with the same argument, the user agent may return the same as the
object returned by the earlier call. In other cases, a new
NodeList object must be returned.
The getElementsByClassName(classNames) method takes a string that
contains a set of space-separated tokens representing
classes. When called, the method must return a live
NodeList object containing all the elements in the
document, in tree order, that have all the classes
specified in that argument, having obtained the classes by splitting a string on
spaces. (Duplicates are ignored.) If there are no tokens
specified in the argument, then the method must return an empty
NodeList. If the document is in quirks
mode, then the comparisons for the classes must be done in an
ASCII case-insensitive manner, otherwise, the
comparisons must be done in a case-sensitive manner.
When the method is invoked on a Document object again
with the same argument, the user agent may return the same object as
the object returned by the earlier call. In other cases, a new
NodeList object must be returned.
The getElementsByClassName(classNames) method on the
HTMLElement interface must return a live
NodeList with the nodes that the
HTMLDocument getElementsByClassName()
method would return when passed the same argument(s), excluding any
elements that are not descendants of the HTMLElement
object on which the method was invoked.
When the method is invoked on an HTMLElement object
again with the same argument, the user agent may return the same
object as the object returned by the earlier call. In other cases, a
new NodeList object must be returned.
HTML, SVG, and MathML elements define which classes they are in
by having an attribute with no namespace with the name class containing a space-separated list of classes
to which the element belongs. Other specifications may also allow
elements in their namespaces to be labeled as being in specific
classes.
Given the following XHTML fragment:
<div id="example"> <p id="p1" class="aaa bbb"/> <p id="p2" class="aaa ccc"/> <p id="p3" class="bbb ccc"/> </div>
A call to document.getElementById('example').getElementsByClassName('aaa')
would return a NodeList with the two paragraphs p1 and p2 in it.
A call to getElementsByClassName('ccc bbb') would only
return one node, however, namely p3. A call
to document.getElementById('example').getElementsByClassName('bbb ccc ')
would return the same thing.
A call to getElementsByClassName('aaa,bbb') would return no
nodes; none of the elements above are in the "aaa,bbb" class.
The HTMLDocument interface supports named properties. The
supported property names at any moment consist of the
values of the name content attributes
of all the applet, embed,
form, iframe, img, and
fallback-free object elements in the
Document that have name
content attributes, and the values of the id content attributes of all the
applet and fallback-free
object elements in the Document that have
id content attributes, and the values
of the id content attributes of all the
img elements in the Document that have
both name content attributes and
id content attributes.
When the
HTMLDocument object is indexed for property
retrieval using a name name, then the user
agent must return the value obtained using the following steps:
Let elements be the list of named elements with
the name name in the Document.
There will be at least one such element, by definition.
If elements has only one element, and that
element is an iframe element, then return the
WindowProxy object of the nested browsing
context represented by that iframe element,
and abort these steps.
Otherwise, if elements has only one element, return that element and abort these steps.
Otherwise return an HTMLCollection rooted at the
Document node, whose filter matches only named elements with
the name name.
Named elements with the name name, for the purposes of the above algorithm, are those that are either:
applet, embed, form,
iframe, img, or
fallback-free object elements that have a
name content attribute whose value
is name, orapplet or fallback-free
object elements that have an id content attribute whose value is name, orimg elements that have an id content attribute whose value is name, and that have a name content attribute present also.An object element is said to be
fallback-free if it has no object or
embed descendants.
The dir
attribute on the HTMLDocument interface is defined
along with the dir content
attribute.
XML documents can be created from script using the
createDocument()
method on the DOMImplementation interface.
HTML documents can be created using the createHTMLDocument()
method:
[Supplemental, NoInterfaceObject]
interface DOMHTMLImplementation {
Document createHTMLDocument(in DOMString title);
};
DOMImplementation implements DOMHTMLImplementation;implementation . createHTMLDocument( title )Returns a new Document, with a basic DOM already
constructed with an appropriate title element.
The createHTMLDocument(title) method, when invoked, must run the
following steps:
Let doc be a newly created
Document object.
Mark doc as being an HTML document.
Create a DocumentType node with the name attribute set to the string "html", and the other attributes specific to
DocumentType objects set to the empty string, null,
and empty lists, as appropriate. Append the newly created node to
doc.
Create an html element, and append it to doc.
Create a head element, and append it to the
html element created in the previous step.
Create a title element, and append it to the
head element created in the previous step.
Create a Text node, and set its data attribute to the string given by the method's
argument (which could be the empty string). Append it to the
title element created in the previous step.
Create a body element, and append it to the
html element created in the earlier step.
Return doc.
A Document object that is an XML document that was created by the DOMImplementation.createDocument()
factory method must also implement the
XMLDocumentLoader interface:
[Supplemental, NoInterfaceObject]
interface XMLDocumentLoader {
boolean load(in DOMString url);
};
The load(url) method must run the following
steps:
Let document be the Document
object on which the method was invoked.
Resolve the method's
first argument, relative to the entry script's base URL. If this is not
successful, throw a SYNTAX_ERR exception and abort
these steps. Otherwise, let url be the
resulting absolute URL.
If the origin of url is not
the same as the origin of document, throw a SECURITY_ERR
exception and abort these steps.
Remove all child nodes of document, without firing any mutation events.
Set the current document readiness of document to "loading".
Run the remainder of these steps asynchronously, and return true from the method.
Let result be an Document
object.
Let success be false.
Fetch url from the origin of document, with the synchronous flag set and the force same-origin flag set.
If the fetch attempt was successful, and the resource's Content-Type metadata is an XML MIME type, then run these substeps:
Create a new XML parser associated with the result document.
Pass this parser the fetched document.
If there is an XML well-formedness or XML namespace well-formedness error, then remove all child nodes from result. Otherwise let success be true.
Queue a task to run the following steps.
Set the current document readiness of document to "complete".
Replace all the children of document
by the children of result (even if it has no
children), firing mutation events as if a
DocumentFragment containing the new children had
been inserted.
Fire a simple event named load at document.