CharacterData in DOM Level 2 Core
The Character Data interface is the base class for all textual content nodes.
Inherits from:
For official information please see http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113/core.html#ID-FF21A306.
Instance Properties
| name | type | description |
|---|---|---|
| attributes | NamedNodeMap | (read only) [from Node] |
| childNodes | NodeList | (read only) [from Node] |
| data | String | |
| firstChild | Node | (read only) [from Node] |
| lastChild | Node | (read only) [from Node] |
| length | Number | (read only) |
| localName | String | (read only) [from Node] |
| namespaceURI | String | (read only) [from Node] |
| nextSibling | Node | (read only) [from Node] |
| nodeName | String | (read only) [from Node] |
| nodeType | Number | (read only) [from Node] |
| nodeValue | String | [from Node] |
| ownerDocument | Document | (read only) [from Node] |
| parentNode | Node | (read only) [from Node] |
| prefix | String | [from Node] |
| previousSibling | Node | (read only) [from Node] |
Instance Methods
| name | returns | description |
|---|---|---|
| appendChild() | Node | [from Node] |
| appendData() | (none) | |
| cloneNode() | Node | Return a new copy of the node.[from Node] |
| deleteData() | (none) | |
| hasAttributes() | Boolean | [from Node] |
| hasChildNodes() | Boolean | [from Node] |
| insertBefore() | Node | [from Node] |
| insertData() | (none) | |
| isSupported() | Boolean | [from Node] |
| normalize() | (none) | [from Node] |
| removeChild() | Node | [from Node] |
| replaceChild() | Node | [from Node] |
| replaceData() | (none) | |
| substringData() | String |
Description
The CharacterData interface extends Node with a set of attributes and methods for accessing character data in the DOM. For clarity this set is defined here rather than on each object that uses these attributes and methods. No DOM objects correspond directly to CharacterData, though Text and others do inherit the interface from it. All offsets in this interface start from 0.
As explained in the DOMString interface, text strings in the DOM are represented in UTF-16, i.e. as a sequence of 16-bit units. In the following, the term 16-bit units is used whenever necessary to indicate that indexing on CharacterData is done in 16-bit units.