specified property

Gets a value that indicates whether an attribute is explicitly given a value.

Syntax

HRESULT value = object.get_specified(* p);

Property values

Type: VARIANT_BOOL

VARIANT_TRUE (true)

Attribute values were explicitly specified.

VARIANT_FALSE (false)

Attribute values were not specified.

Standards information

• Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification, Section 1.2

Remarks

An attribute value is specified if it is assigned through HTML or script.

Windows Internet Explorer 9. When webpages are displayed in IE9 Standards mode, the attributes collection does not contain attributes that are not specifically created (unlike previous Windows Internet Explorer versions). As a result, the IHTMLDOMAttribute::specified property returns VARIANT_TRUE for every item in the attributes collection.

See also

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