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- JavaScript objects
- Object: Attr
- Object: blackberry
- Object: blackberry.launch
- blackberry.launch methods
- Method: blackberry.launch.launchCamera()
- Method: blackberry.launch.launchVideoRecorder()
- Method: blackberry.launch.launchVoicemail()
- Method: blackberry.launch.newAppointment()
- Method: blackberry.launch.newContact()
- Method: blackberry.launch.newMap()
- Method: blackberry.launch.newMemo()
- Method: blackberry.launch.newPhoneCall()
- Method: blackberry.launch.newSMS()
- Method: blackberry.launch.newTask()
- JSON Object: Address
- Object: blackberry.location
- Object: CDATASection
- Object: CharacterData
- Object: Comment
- Object: Counter
- Object: CSSCharsetRule
- Object: CSSFontFaceRule
- Object: CSSImportRule
- Object: CSSMediaRule
- Object: CSSPageRule
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Object: CSSPrimitiveValue
- CSSPrimitiveValue properties
- CSSPrimitiveValue methods
- Method: CSSPrimitiveValue.getCounterValue()
- Method: CSSPrimitiveValue.getFloatValue()
- Method: CSSPrimitiveValue.getRectValue()
- Method: CSSPrimitiveValue.getRGBColorValue()
- Method: getStringValue()
- Method: CSSPrimitiveValue.setFloatValue()
- Method: CSSPrimitiveValue.setStringValue()
- Object: CSSRule
- Object: CSSRuleList
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Object: CSSStyleDeclaration
- CSSStyleDeclaration properties
- CSSStyleDeclaration methods
- Method: CSSStyleDeclaration.getPropertyPriority()
- Method: CSSStyleDeclaration.getPropertyCSSValue()
- Method: CSSStyleDeclaration.getPropertyValue()
- Method: CSSStyleDeclaration.item()
- Method: CSSStyleDeclaration.removeProperty()
- Method: CSSStyleDeclaration.setProperty()
- Object: CSSStyleRule
- Object: CSSStyleSheet
- Object: CSSUnknownRule
- Object: CSSValue
- Object: CSSValueList
- Object: CustomEvent
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Object: Document
- Document properties
- Document methods
- Method: Document.adoptNode()
- Method: Document.createAttribute()
- Method: Document.createAttributeNS()
- Method: Document.createCDATASection()
- Method: Document.createComment()
- Method: Document.createDocumentFragment()
- Method: Document.createElement()
- Method: Document.createElementNS()
- Method: Document.createEntityReference()
- Method: Document.createEvent()
- Method: Document.createNodeIterator()
- Method: Document.createProcessingInstruction()
- Method: Document.createRange()
- Method: Document.createTextNode()
- Method: Document.createTreeWalker()
- Method: Document.getElementById()
- Method: Document.getElementsByTagName()
- Method: Document.getElementsByTagNameNS()
- Method: Document.getOverrideStyle()
- Method: Document.importNode()
- Object: DocumentFragment
- Object: DocumentType
- Object: DOMImplementation
- Object: DOMParser
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Object: Element
- Element properties
- Element methods
- Method: Element.getAttribute()
- Method: Element.getAttributeNode()
- Method: Element.getAttributeNodeNS()
- Method: Element.getAttributeNS()
- Method: Element.getElementsByTagName()
- Method: Element.getElementsByTagNameNS()
- Method: Element.hasAttribute()
- Method: Element.hasAttributeNS()
- Method: Element.removeAttribute()
- Method: Element.removeAttributeNode()
- Method: Element.removeAttributeNS()
- Method: Element.setAttribute()
- Method: Element.setAttributeNode()
- Method: Element.setAttributeNodeNS()
- Method: setAttributeNS()
- Object: Entity
- Object: EntityReference
- Object: Event
- Object: EventListener
- Object: History
- Object: HTMLAnchorElement
- Object: HTMLAreaElement
- Object: HTMLAppletElement
- Object: HTMLBaseElement
- Object: HTMLBaseFontElement
- Object: HTMLBodyElement
- Object: HTMLBRElement
- Object: HTMLButtonElement
- Object: HTMLCollection
- Object: HTMLDataListElement
- Object: HTMLDirectoryElement
- Object: HTMLDivElement
- Object: HTMLDListElement
- Object: HTMLDocument
- Object: HTMLElement
- Object: HTMLFieldsetElement
- Object: HTMLFontElement
- Object: HTMLFormElement
- Object: HTMLFrameElement
- Object: HTMLFrameSetElement
- Object: HTMLHeadElement
- Object: HTMLHeadingElement
- Object: HTMLHRElement
- Object: HTMLHtmlElement
- Object: HTMLIFrameElement
- Object: HTMLImageElement
- Object: HTMLInputElement
- Object: HTMLIsIndexElement
- Object: HTMLLabelElement
- Object: HTMLLegendElement
- Object: HTMLLIElement
- Object: HTMLLinkElement
- Object: HTMLMapElement
- Object: HTMLMenuElement
- Object: HTMLMetaElement
- Object: HTMLModElement
- Object: HTMLObjectElement
- Object: HTMLOListElement
- Object: HTMLOptGroupElement
- Object: HTMLOptionElement
- Object: HTMLOptionsCollection
- Object: HTMLParagraphElement
- Object: HTMLParamElement
- Object: HTMLPreElement
- Object: HTMLQuoteElement
- Object: HTMLScriptElement
- Object: HTMLSelectElement
- Object: HTMLStyleElement
- Object: HTMLTableCaptionElement
- Object: HTMLTableCellElement
- Object: HTMLTableColElement
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Object: HTMLTableElement
- HTMLTableElement properties
- HTMLTableElement methods
- Method: HTMLTableElement.createCaption()
- Method: HTMLTableElement.createTFoot()
- Method: HTMLTableElement.createTHead()
- Method: HTMLTableElement.deleteCaption()
- Method: HTMLTableElement.deleteRow()
- Method: HTMLTableElement.deleteTFoot()
- Method: HTMLTableElement.deleteTHead()
- Method: HTMLTableElement.insertRow()
- Object: HTMLTableRowElement
- Object: HTMLTableSectionElement
- Object: HTMLTextAreaElement
- Object: HTMLTitleElement
- Object: HTMLUListElement
- Object: KeyboardEvent
- Object: Location
- Object: MediaList
- Object: MimeType
- Object: MimeTypeArray
- Object: MouseEvent
- Object: MutationEvent
- Object: NamedFrameMap
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Object: NamedNodeMap
- NamedNodeMap properties
- NamedNodeMap methods
- Method: NamedNodeMap.getNamedItem()
- Method: NamedNodeMap.getNamedItemNS()
- Method: NamedNodeMap.item()
- Method: NamedNodeMap.removeNamedItem()
- Method: NamedNodeMap.removeNamedItemNS()
- Method: NamedNodeMap.setNamedItem()
- Method: NamedNodeMap.setNamedItemNS()
- Object: Navigator
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Object: Node
- Node properties
- Node methods
- Method: Node.removeEventListener()
- Method: Node.removeChild()
- Method: Node.replaceChild()
- Method: Node.normalize()
- Method: Node.addEventListener()
- Method: Node.appendChild()
- Method: Node.cloneNode()
- Method: Node.dispatchEvent()
- Method: Node.hasAttributes()
- Method: Node.hasChildNodes()
- Method: Node.insertBefore()
- Method: Node.isSupported()
- Object: NodeFilter
- Object: NodeList
- Object: Notation
- Object: NodeIterator
- Object: Plugin
- Object: PluginArray
- Object: ProcessingInstruction
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Object: Range
- Range properties
- Range methods
- Method: Range.cloneContents()
- Method: Range.cloneRange()
- Method: Range.collapse()
- Method: Range.compareBoundaryPoints()
- Method: Range.deleteContents()
- Method: Range.detach()
- Method: Range.extractContents()
- Method: Range.insertNode()
- Method: Range.selectNodeContents()
- Method: Range.selectNode()
- Method: Range.setEndAfter()
- Method: Range.setEndBefore()
- Method: Range.setEnd()
- Method: Range.setStartAfter()
- Method: Range.setStartBefore()
- Method: Range.setStart()
- Method: Range.surroundContents()
- Method: Range.toString()
- Object: Rect
- Object: RGBColor
- Object: Screen
- Object: Selection
- Selection properties
- Selection methods
- Method: Selection.addRange()
- Method: Selection.collapseToEnd()
- Method: Selection.collapseToStart()
- Method: Selection.collapse()
- Method: Selection.deleteFromDocument()
- Method: Selection.getRangeAt()
- Method: Selection.removeAllRanges()
- Method: Selection.removeRange()
- Method: Selection.selectAllChildren()
- Object: StyleSheet
- Object: StyleSheetList
- Object: Text
- Object: TextEvent
- Object: TreeWalker
- Object: UIEvent
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Object: Window
- Window properties
- Window event handlers
- Window methods
- Method: window.addEventListener()
- Method: window.alert()
- Method: window.back()
- Method: window.blur()
- Method: window.close()
- Method: window.confirm()
- Method: window.dispatchEvent()
- Method: window.find()
- Method: window.focus()
- Method: window.forward()
- Method: window.getComputedStyle()
- Method: window.home()
- Method: window.moveBy()
- Method: window.moveTo()
- Method: window.open()
- Method: window.print()
- Method: window.prompt()
- Method: window.removeEventListener()
- Method: window.resizeBy()
- Method: window.resizeTo()
- Method: window.scroll()
- Method: window.scrollBy()
- Method: window.scrollTo()
- Method: window.stop()
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Object: XMLHttpRequest
- XMLHttpRequest properties
- XMLHttpRequest event handlers
- XMLHttpRequest methods
- Method: XMLHttpRequest.abort()
- Method: XMLHttpRequest.addEventListener()
- Method: XMLHttpRequest.dispatchEvent()
- Method: XMLHttpRequest.getAllResponseHeaders()
- Method: XMLHttpRequest.getResponseHeader()
- Method: XMLHttpResponse.open()
- Method: XMLHttpRequest.removeEventListener()
- Method: XMLHttpRequest.send()
- Method: XMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader()
- Object: XMLSerializer
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Object: Entity
The Entity object represents any entity in an XML document. Entities are declarations of abbreviated text or other nodes within an XML document, which can be inserted at various places in an XML document using EntityReference objects.
The Entity name is stored in the Node.nodeName property. However, the actual content of the entity is contained within the Entity node’s children. An Entity node has no parent; the Node.parentNode property for an entity will always be null.
Entity nodes and their children are read only and can not be modified once they have been added to a document. If you need to change the content of an Entity object, you must create a new one, then update all the EntityReference objects that referred to the old Entity so that they refer to the new Entity instead.
Entity properties
Property name |
Type |
Description |
Status |
Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
notationName |
String |
For unparsed entities, the name of the notation for the entity. For parsed entities, the value of this property is null. |
read only |
4.6 or later |
publicId |
String |
The public identifier associated with the entity. |
read only |
4.6 or later |
systemId |
String |
The system identifier associated with this entity. |
read only |
4.6 or later |