canHaveHTML Attribute | canHaveHTML Property
Gets the value indicating whether the object can contain rich HTML markup.
Syntax
HTML <ELEMENT canHaveHTML ... > Scripting [ bHTMLContainer = ] object.canHaveHTML
Possible Values
bHTMLContainer Boolean that receives one of the following values.
false- Object cannot contain HTML markup.
true- Object can contain HTML markup.
The property is read-only. The property has no default value.
Remarks
The property is read-only for all objects except the following, for which it is read-write: defaults.
Example
The following example shows how to use the canHaveHTML property to determine whether an object can contain HTML markup.
<HTML> <HEAD> <SCRIPT> function answer(arg) { arg ? alert("Yes") : alert("No"); } </SCRIPT> </HEAD> <BODY> <P>INPUT: <INPUT type="text" ID="oInput" VALUE="oInput" /></P> <P>SPAN: <SPAN ID="oSpan">oSpan</SPAN></P> <BUTTON onclick="answer(oInput.canHaveHTML);"> Can the INPUT contain HTML? </BUTTON> <BUTTON onclick="answer(oSpan.canHaveHTML);"> Can the SPAN contain HTML? </BUTTON> </BODY> </HTML>Code example: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/canHaveHTML.htm
Applies To
A, ABBR, ACRONYM, ADDRESS, APPLET, AREA, B, BASE, BASEFONT, BDO, BGSOUND, BIG, BLOCKQUOTE, BODY, BR, BUTTON, CAPTION, CENTER, CITE, CODE, COL, COLGROUP, COMMENT, CUSTOM, DD, defaults, DEL, DFN, DIR, DIV, DL, DT, EM, EMBED, FIELDSET, FONT, FORM, FRAME, FRAMESET, HEAD, hn, HR, HTML, I, IFRAME, IMG, INPUT type=button, INPUT type=checkbox, INPUT type=file, INPUT type=hidden, INPUT type=image, INPUT type=password, INPUT type=radio, INPUT type=reset, INPUT type=submit, INPUT type=text, INS, ISINDEX, KBD, LABEL, LEGEND, LI, LINK, LISTING, MAP, MARQUEE, MENU, nextID, NOBR, NOFRAMES, NOSCRIPT, OBJECT, OL, OPTION, P, PLAINTEXT, PRE, Q, RT, RUBY, S, SAMP, SCRIPT, SELECT, SMALL, SPAN, STRIKE, STRONG, SUB, SUP, TABLE, TBODY, TD, TEXTAREA, TFOOT, TH, THEAD, TITLE, TR, TT, U, UL, VAR, WBR, XML, XMP, Element Constructor, HTCElementBehaviorDefaults Constructor
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Travis Leithead
Property only; no longer relevant after IE9
This property does not have a corresponding attribute.
Also, since IE9, all elements can have HTML as children (for example, the 'nextid' element's canHaveHTML property reports false, yet it can have elements and other node syntactically valid nodes added to it).
Also, since IE9, all elements can have HTML as children (for example, the 'nextid' element's canHaveHTML property reports false, yet it can have elements and other node syntactically valid nodes added to it).