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Notes 10.5 Document Object
The JavaScript Document object is the container for all HTML HEAD and BODY objects associated
within the HTML tags of an HTML document.
10.5.1 Document Object – Properties
Document object has the following properties:
alinkColor - The color of active links.
bgColor - Sets the background color of the web page. It is set in the <body> tag. The
following code sets the background color to white.
document.bgColor = “#FFFFFF”
cookie - Used to identify the value of a cookie.
defaultCharset
domain - The domain name of the document server.
embeds - An array containing all the plugins in a document.
fgColor - The text color attribute set in the <body> tag.
FileCreatedDate - Use this value to show when the loaded HTML file was created.
fileModifiedDate - Use this value to show the last change date of the loaded HTML file
fileSize
fileUpdatedDate
lastModified - The date the file was modified last.
layers - An array containing all the layers in a document.
linkColor - The color of HTML links in the document. It is specified in the <body> tag.
location
mimeType
nameProp
protocol
readyState
referrer - The Universal Resource Locator (URL) of the document that we got the link to the
present document from.
security
title - The name of the current document as described between the header TITLE tags.
URL - The location of the current document.
vlinkColor - The color of visited links as specified in the <body> tag/
10.5.2 Document Object – Methods
The following methods are used in document object:
clear() - This is depreciated.
close() - Closes an output stream that was used to create a document object.
contextual() - It can be used to specify stype of specific tags.
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