Legacy DOM Properties

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This section describes Document Object Model (DOM) properties supported in earlier versions of Windows Internet Explorer that are not widely supported in other browsers. Application that rely on these features should be updated to use featured based on modern standards, such as HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets, Level 3 (CSS3), and others.

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Topic Description

behavior

Sets or retrieves how the text scrolls in the marquee.

behaviorUrns

Returns a collection of Uniform Resource Name (URN) strings identifying the behaviors attached to the element.

This property is not supported for Windows Store apps using JavaScript.

direction

Sets or retrieves the direction in which the text should scroll.

dynsrc

This property is deprecated. Sets or retrieves the address of a video clip or VRML world to display in the window.

filters

Retrieves the collection of filters that have been applied to the object.

galleryImg

Obsolete. Sets or retrieves whether the My Pictures image toolbar is visible for the current image.

This property is not supported for Windows Store apps using JavaScript.

loop

Sets or retrieves the number of times a marquee will play.

menuArguments

This property is not supported for Windows Store apps using JavaScript.

nameProp

Retrieves the file name specified in the href or src property of the object.

namespaces

Retrieves a collection of namespace objects.

onvisibilitychange

Sets or retrieves a value on visibility change.

opener

Sets or retrieves a reference to the window that created the current window.

plugins

Retrieves a collection of all embed objects within the document.

This collection is not supported for Windows Store apps using JavaScript.

profile

Sets or retrieves one or more Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) in which the object properties and legal values for those properties are defined.

protocol

Sets or retrieves the protocol portion of a URL.

recordNumber

Retrieves the ordinal record from the data set that generated the object.

recordset

Sets or retrieves from a data source object a reference to the default record set.

returnValue

Sets or gets the value returned from the modal dialog window.

This property is not supported for Windows Store apps using JavaScript.

saveType

Retrieves the clipboard type when oncontentsave fires.

scopeName

Gets the namespace defined for the element.

This property is not supported for Windows Store apps using JavaScript.

scrollAmount

Sets or retrieves the number of pixels the text scrolls between each subsequent drawing of the marquee.

scrollbar

Sets or retrieves whether to show the scrollbar.

scrollDelay

Sets or retrieves the speed of the marquee scroll.

selectableContent

Sets or retrieves whether selectable content is valid.

trueSpeed

Sets or retrieves whether the position of the marquee is calculated using the scrollDelay and scrollAmount properties and the actual time elapsed from the last clock tick.

UNSELECTABLE

Specifies that an element cannot be selected.

version

Retrieves a string representing the version in the format "N.nnnn platform", where N is an integer representing the major version number, nnnn is a number of characters representing the minor version number, and platform is the platform (win32, mac, alpha, and so on).

viewLinkContent

Declares the element behavior as a document fragment.

visibility

Retrieves whether content is visible.