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Interface HTMLSelectElement

The HTMLSelectElement interface represents a element's autocomplete attribute.

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autocorrect: boolean

The autocorrect property of the HTMLElement interface controls whether or not autocorrection of editable text is enabled for spelling and/or punctuation errors.

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autofocus: boolean
baseURI: string

The read-only baseURI property of the Node interface returns the absolute base URL of the document containing the node.

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CDATA_SECTION_NODE: 4

node is a CDATASection node.

childElementCount: number
childNodes: NodeListOf<ChildNode>

The read-only childNodes property of the Node interface returns a live NodeList of child nodes of the given element where the first child node is assigned index 0. Child nodes include elements, text and comments.

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children: HTMLCollection

Returns the child elements.

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className: string

The className property of the Element interface gets and sets the value of the class attribute of the specified element.

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clientHeight: number

The clientHeight read-only property of the Element interface is zero for elements with no CSS or inline layout boxes; otherwise, it's the inner height of an element in pixels. It includes padding but excludes borders, margins, and horizontal scrollbars (if present).

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clientLeft: number

The clientLeft read-only property of the Element interface returns the width of the left border of an element in pixels. It includes the width of the vertical scrollbar if the text direction of the element is right-to-left and if there is an overflow causing a left vertical scrollbar to be rendered. clientLeft does not include the left margin or the left padding.

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clientTop: number

The clientTop read-only property of the Element interface returns the width of the top border of an element in pixels.

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clientWidth: number

The clientWidth read-only property of the Element interface is zero for inline elements and elements with no CSS; otherwise, it's the inner width of an element in pixels. It includes padding but excludes borders, margins, and vertical scrollbars (if present).

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COMMENT_NODE: 8

node is a Comment node.

contentEditable: string
currentCSSZoom: number

The currentCSSZoom read-only property of the Element interface provides the "effective" CSS zoom of an element, taking into account the zoom applied to the element and all its parent elements.

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customElementRegistry: CustomElementRegistry | null
dataset: DOMStringMap
dir: string

The HTMLElement.dir property indicates the text writing directionality of the content of the current element. It reflects the element's dir attribute.

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disabled: boolean

The HTMLSelectElement.disabled property is a boolean value that reflects the disabled HTML attribute, which indicates whether the control is disabled. If it is disabled, it does not accept clicks. A disabled element is unusable and un-clickable.

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DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE: 11

node is a DocumentFragment node.

DOCUMENT_NODE: 9

node is a document.

DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY: 16

Set when other is a descendant of node.

DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS: 8

Set when other is an ancestor of node.

DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED: 1

Set when node and other are not in the same tree.

DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING: 4

Set when other is following node.

DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC: 32
DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING: 2

Set when other is preceding node.

DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE: 10

node is a doctype.

draggable: boolean

The draggable property of the HTMLElement interface gets and sets a Boolean primitive indicating if the element is draggable.

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ELEMENT_NODE: 1

node is an element.

enterKeyHint: string
ENTITY_NODE: 6
ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE: 5
firstChild: ChildNode | null

The read-only firstChild property of the Node interface returns the node's first child in the tree, or null if the node has no children.

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firstElementChild: Element | null

Returns the first child that is an element, and null otherwise.

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form: HTMLFormElement | null

The form read-only property of the HTMLSelectElement interface returns an HTMLFormElement object that owns this element.

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lang: string

The lang property of the HTMLElement interface indicates the base language of an element's attribute values and text content, in the form of a BCP 47 language tag. It reflects the element's lang attribute; the xml:lang attribute does not affect this property.

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lastChild: ChildNode | null

The read-only lastChild property of the Node interface returns the last child of the node, or null if there are no child nodes.

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lastElementChild: Element | null

Returns the last child that is an element, and null otherwise.

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length: number

The length property of the HTMLSelectElement interface specifies the number of

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name: string

The name property of the HTMLSelectElement interface indicates the name of the element.

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outerHTML: string

The outerHTML attribute of the Element interface gets or sets the HTML or XML markup of the element and its descendants, omitting any shadow roots in both cases.

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outerText: string

The outerText property of the HTMLElement interface returns the same value as HTMLElement.innerText. When used as a setter it replaces the whole current node with the given text (this differs from innerText, which replaces the content inside the current node).

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ownerDocument: Document

The read-only ownerDocument property of the Node interface returns the top-level document object of the node.

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parentElement: HTMLElement | null

The read-only parentElement property of Node interface returns the DOM node's parent Element, or null if the node either has no parent, or its parent isn't a DOM Element. Node.parentNode on the other hand returns any kind of parent, regardless of its type.

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parentNode: ParentNode | null

The read-only parentNode property of the Node interface returns the parent of the specified node in the DOM tree.

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popover: string | null

The popover property of the HTMLElement interface gets and sets an element's popover state via JavaScript ("auto", "hint", or "manual"), and can be used for feature detection.

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prefix: string | null

The Element.prefix read-only property returns the namespace prefix of the specified element, or null if no prefix is specified.

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previousElementSibling: Element | null

Returns the first preceding sibling that is an element, and null otherwise.

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previousSibling: ChildNode | null

The read-only previousSibling property of the Node interface returns the node immediately preceding the specified one in its parent's childNodes list, or null if the specified node is the first in that list.

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PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE: 7

node is a ProcessingInstruction node.

required: boolean

The required property of the HTMLSelectElement interface specifies that the user must select an option with a non-empty string value before submitting a form. It reflects the element, if any, or −1 if no

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The read-only HTMLSelectElement property selectedOptions contains a list of the

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slot: string

The slot property of the Element interface returns the name of the shadow DOM slot the element is inserted in.

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spellcheck: boolean

The spellcheck property of the HTMLElement interface represents a boolean value that controls the spell-checking hint. It is available on all HTML elements, though it doesn't affect all of them.

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tabIndex: number
tagName: string

The tagName read-only property of the Element interface returns the tag name of the element on which it's called.

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TEXT_NODE: 3

node is a Text node.

title: string

The HTMLElement.title property represents the title of the element: the text usually displayed in a 'tooltip' popup when the mouse is over the node.

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translate: boolean

The translate property of the HTMLElement interface indicates whether an element's attribute values and the values of its Text node children are to be translated when the page is localized, or whether to leave them unchanged.

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type: "select-one" | "select-multiple"

The HTMLSelectElement.type read-only property returns the form control's type.

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validationMessage: string

The validationMessage read-only property of the HTMLSelectElement interface returns a string representing a localized message that describes the validation constraints that the element.

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willValidate: boolean

The willValidate read-only property of the HTMLSelectElement interface indicates whether the Inherited

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