Chapter 3 DynaScript Predefined Objects

DOMCharacterData properties

The DOMCharacterData object has the properties listed in this section, in addition to all of the properties of the DOMNode object, which are inherited:

data property

Syntax

DOMCharacterData.data

Description

The text represented by this object.

Example

This DynaScript fragment writes out the character data associated with all text node children of an element.

child = elem.firstChild;
do {
  if( child.nodeType == 3 ){// text node         
    document.writeln( child.data );
    child = child.nextSibling;
  }
} while ( child != null )

length property

Syntax

DOMCharacterData.length

Description

The number of characters in the text representing by this object. The length is an integer value greater than or equal to zero.

Example

This DynaScript fragment writes out the length of each text node child of a DOMElement object named elem.

child = elem.firstChild;
do {
  if( child.nodeType == 3 ){// text node         
    document.writeln( child.data );
    child = child.nextSibling;
  }
} while ( child != null )