DOM - Element

An element is the most common type of node in the DOM.

When you want to do something to an element, first you need to select it.

A dom element is generally the memory representation of:

• an HTML element
• or an XML element (XHTML)

See DOM - Node attribute

See:

• DOM - Selection of Node Element
• and DOM - Collection Iteration (NodeList, ..)

getElementsByName The document function document.getElementsByName(name) returns a NodeList collection of elements in the Document that have a name attribute with the value name in a case-sensitive manner, in tree order

See DOM - Child Nodes of a Node

See DOM - Element content

Jquery snippet

// if not removed
if (jQueryElement.parent().length >0) {
    jQueryElement.remove();
}

The nodes representing HTML elements inherit their interface from the HTMLElement interface.

• The HTMLElement interface holds methods and attributes related to a number of disparate features.
• The HTMLUnknownElement interface is used for HTML elements that are not defined by the HTML specification.

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