IHTMLDOMNode interface

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05/02/2017

Provides methods to access all of the nodes in the document object model (DOM), to iterate the nodes, to insert nodes, to remove nodes, and to get the attributes of a node.

Members

The IHTMLDOMNode interface inherits from the IDispatch interface. IHTMLDOMNode also has these types of members:

Methods
Properties

Methods

The IHTMLDOMNode interface has these methods.

Method	Description
appendChild	Appends an element as a child to the object.
cloneNode	Copies a reference to the object from the document hierarchy.
hasChildNodes	Returns a value that indicates whether the object has children.
insertBefore	Inserts an element into the document hierarchy as a child node of a parent object.
removeChild	Removes a child node from the object.
removeNode	Removes the object from the document hierarchy.
replaceChild	Replaces an existing child element with a new child element.
replaceNode	Replaces the object with another element.
swapNode	Exchanges the location of two objects in the document hierarchy.

Properties

The IHTMLDOMNode interface has these properties.

Property	Description
childnodes	Gets the child nodes of the document object.
firstChild	Gets a reference to the first child in the childNodes collection of the object.
lastChild	Gets a reference to the last child in the childNodes collection of an object.
nextSibling	Retrieves a reference to the next child of the parent for the object.
nodeName	Gets the name of a particular type of node.
nodeType	Retrieves the type of the requested node.
nodeValue	Gets or sets the value of a node.
parentNode	Retrieves the parent object in the document hierarchy.
previousSibling	Gets a reference to the previous child of the parent for the object.

Remarks

To get an IHTMLDOMNode interface pointer for an element, call QueryInterface on an IHTMLElement interface pointer, an IHTMLElement2 interface pointer, an IHTMLElement3 interface pointer, or anIHTMLElement4 interface pointer. The IHTMLDOMNode interface is used in a variety of other contexts; see the See Also section.

Requirements

Minimum supported client	Windows XP
Minimum supported server	Windows 2000 Server
Header	Mshtml.h
IDL	Mshtml.idl
DLL	Mshtml.dll