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Interface ProcessingInstruction

The ProcessingInstruction interface represents a processing instruction; that is, a Node which embeds an instruction targeting a specific application but that can be ignored by any other applications which don't recognize the instruction.

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interface ProcessingInstruction {
    ATTRIBUTE_NODE: 2;
    baseURI: string;
    CDATA_SECTION_NODE: 4;
    childNodes: NodeListOf<ChildNode>;
    COMMENT_NODE: 8;
    data: string;
    DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE: 11;
    DOCUMENT_NODE: 9;
    DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY: 16;
    DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS: 8;
    DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED: 1;
    DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING: 4;
    DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC: 32;
    DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING: 2;
    DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE: 10;
    ELEMENT_NODE: 1;
    ENTITY_NODE: 6;
    ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE: 5;
    firstChild: ChildNode | null;
    isConnected: boolean;
    lastChild: ChildNode | null;
    length: number;
    nextElementSibling: Element | null;
    nextSibling: ChildNode | null;
    nodeName: string;
    nodeType: number;
    nodeValue: string | null;
    NOTATION_NODE: 12;
    ownerDocument: Document;
    parentElement: HTMLElement | null;
    parentNode: ParentNode | null;
    previousElementSibling: Element | null;
    previousSibling: ChildNode | null;
    PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE: 7;
    sheet: CSSStyleSheet | null;
    target: string;
    TEXT_NODE: 3;
    get textContent(): string;
    set textContent(value: string | null): void;
    addEventListener(
        type: string,
        callback: EventListenerOrEventListenerObject | null,
        options?: boolean | AddEventListenerOptions,
    ): void;
    after(...nodes: (string | Node)[]): void;
    appendChild<T extends Node>(node: T): T;
    appendData(data: string): void;
    before(...nodes: (string | Node)[]): void;
    cloneNode(subtree?: boolean): Node;
    compareDocumentPosition(other: Node): number;
    contains(other: Node | null): boolean;
    deleteData(offset: number, count: number): void;
    dispatchEvent(event: Event): boolean;
    getRootNode(options?: GetRootNodeOptions): Node;
    hasChildNodes(): boolean;
    insertBefore<T extends Node>(node: T, child: Node | null): T;
    insertData(offset: number, data: string): void;
    isDefaultNamespace(namespace: string | null): boolean;
    isEqualNode(otherNode: Node | null): boolean;
    isSameNode(otherNode: Node | null): boolean;
    lookupNamespaceURI(prefix: string | null): string | null;
    lookupPrefix(namespace: string | null): string | null;
    normalize(): void;
    remove(): void;
    removeChild<T extends Node>(child: T): T;
    removeEventListener(
        type: string,
        callback: EventListenerOrEventListenerObject | null,
        options?: boolean | EventListenerOptions,
    ): void;
    replaceChild<T extends Node>(node: Node, child: T): T;
    replaceData(offset: number, count: number, data: string): void;
    replaceWith(...nodes: (string | Node)[]): void;
    substringData(offset: number, count: number): string;
}

Hierarchy (View Summary)

Index
ATTRIBUTE_NODE baseURI CDATA_SECTION_NODE childNodes COMMENT_NODE data DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE DOCUMENT_NODE DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE ELEMENT_NODE ENTITY_NODE ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE firstChild isConnected lastChild length nextElementSibling nextSibling nodeName nodeType nodeValue NOTATION_NODE ownerDocument parentElement parentNode previousElementSibling previousSibling PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE sheet target TEXT_NODE
textContent
addEventListener after appendChild appendData before cloneNode compareDocumentPosition contains deleteData dispatchEvent getRootNode hasChildNodes insertBefore insertData isDefaultNamespace isEqualNode isSameNode lookupNamespaceURI lookupPrefix normalize remove removeChild removeEventListener replaceChild replaceData replaceWith substringData
ATTRIBUTE_NODE: 2
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.

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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COMMENT_NODE: 8

node is a Comment node.

data: string

The data property of the CharacterData interface represent the value of the current object's data.

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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.

ELEMENT_NODE: 1

node is an element.

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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isConnected: boolean

The read-only isConnected property of the Node interface returns a boolean indicating whether the node is connected (directly or indirectly) to a Document object.

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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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length: number

The read-only CharacterData.length property returns the number of characters in the contained data, as a positive integer.

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nextElementSibling: Element | null

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

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nextSibling: ChildNode | null

The read-only nextSibling property of the Node interface returns the node immediately following the specified one in their parent's childNodes, or returns null if the specified node is the last child in the parent element.

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nodeName: string

The read-only nodeName property of Node returns the name of the current node as a string.

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nodeType: number

The read-only nodeType property of a Node interface is an integer that identifies what the node is. It distinguishes different kinds of nodes from each other, such as elements, text, and comments.

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nodeValue: string | null

The nodeValue property of the Node interface returns or sets the value of the current node.

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NOTATION_NODE: 12
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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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.

sheet: CSSStyleSheet | null

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target: string

The read-only target property of the ProcessingInstruction interface represent the application to which the ProcessingInstruction is targeted.

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ReadonlyTEXT_NODE

TEXT_NODE: 3

node is a Text node.

  • get textContent(): string

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    Returns string

  • set textContent(value: string | null): void

    The textContent property of the Node interface represents the text content of the node and its descendants.

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    Parameters

    • value: string | null

    Returns void

  • Inserts nodes just after node, while replacing strings in nodes with equivalent Text nodes.

    Throws a "HierarchyRequestError" DOMException if the constraints of the node tree are violated.

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    Parameters

    • ...nodes: (string | Node)[]

    Returns void

  • The appendChild() method of the Node interface adds a node to the end of the list of children of a specified parent node.

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    Type Parameters

    Parameters

    • node: T

    Returns T

  • The appendData() method of the CharacterData interface adds the provided data to the end of the node's current data.

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    Parameters

    • data: string

    Returns void

  • Inserts nodes just before node, while replacing strings in nodes with equivalent Text nodes.

    Throws a "HierarchyRequestError" DOMException if the constraints of the node tree are violated.

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    Parameters

    • ...nodes: (string | Node)[]

    Returns void

  • The cloneNode() method of the Node interface returns a duplicate of the node on which this method was called. Its parameter controls if the subtree contained in the node is also cloned or not.

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    Parameters

    • Optionalsubtree: boolean

    Returns Node

  • The compareDocumentPosition() method of the Node interface reports the position of its argument node relative to the node on which it is called.

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    Parameters

    Returns number

  • The contains() method of the Node interface returns a boolean value indicating whether a node is a descendant of a given node, that is the node itself, one of its direct children (childNodes), one of the children's direct children, and so on.

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    Parameters

    Returns boolean

  • The deleteData() method of the CharacterData interface removes all or part of the data from this CharacterData node.

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    Parameters

    • offset: number
    • count: number

    Returns void

  • The dispatchEvent() method of the EventTarget sends an Event to the object, (synchronously) invoking the affected event listeners in the appropriate order. The normal event processing rules (including the capturing and optional bubbling phase) also apply to events dispatched manually with dispatchEvent().

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    Parameters

    • event: Event

    Returns boolean

  • The hasChildNodes() method of the Node interface returns a boolean value indicating whether the given Node has child nodes or not.

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    Returns boolean

  • The insertBefore() method of the Node interface inserts a node before a reference node as a child of a specified parent node.

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    Type Parameters

    Parameters

    • node: T
    • child: Node | null

    Returns T

  • The insertData() method of the CharacterData interface inserts the provided data into this CharacterData node's current data, at the provided offset from the start of the existing data. The provided data is spliced into the existing data.

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    Parameters

    • offset: number
    • data: string

    Returns void

  • The isDefaultNamespace() method of the Node interface accepts a namespace URI as an argument. It returns a boolean value that is true if the namespace is the default namespace on the given node and false if not. The default namespace can be retrieved with Node.lookupNamespaceURI() by passing null as the argument.

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    Parameters

    • namespace: string | null

    Returns boolean

  • The isEqualNode() method of the Node interface tests whether two nodes are equal. Two nodes are equal when they have the same type, defining characteristics (for elements, this would be their ID, number of children, and so forth), its attributes match, and so on. The specific set of data points that must match varies depending on the types of the nodes.

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    Parameters

    • otherNode: Node | null

    Returns boolean

  • The isSameNode() method of the Node interface is a legacy alias the for the === strict equality operator. That is, it tests whether two nodes are the same (in other words, whether they reference the same object).

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    Parameters

    • otherNode: Node | null

    Returns boolean

  • The lookupNamespaceURI() method of the Node interface takes a prefix as parameter and returns the namespace URI associated with it on the given node if found (and null if not). This method's existence allows Node objects to be passed as a namespace resolver to XPathEvaluator.createExpression() and XPathEvaluator.evaluate().

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    Parameters

    • prefix: string | null

    Returns string | null

  • The lookupPrefix() method of the Node interface returns a string containing the prefix for a given namespace URI, if present, and null if not. When multiple prefixes are possible, the first prefix is returned.

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    Parameters

    • namespace: string | null

    Returns string | null

  • The normalize() method of the Node interface puts the specified node and all of its sub-tree into a normalized form. In a normalized sub-tree, no text nodes in the sub-tree are empty and there are no adjacent text nodes.

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    Returns void

  • The removeChild() method of the Node interface removes a child node from the DOM and returns the removed node.

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    Type Parameters

    Parameters

    • child: T

    Returns T

  • The removeEventListener() method of the EventTarget interface removes an event listener previously registered with EventTarget.addEventListener() from the target. The event listener to be removed is identified using a combination of the event type, the event listener function itself, and various optional options that may affect the matching process; see Matching event listeners for removal.

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    Parameters

    Returns void

  • The replaceData() method of the CharacterData interface removes a certain number of characters of the existing text in a given CharacterData node and replaces those characters with the text provided.

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    Parameters

    • offset: number
    • count: number
    • data: string

    Returns void

  • Replaces node with nodes, while replacing strings in nodes with equivalent Text nodes.

    Throws a "HierarchyRequestError" DOMException if the constraints of the node tree are violated.

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    Parameters

    • ...nodes: (string | Node)[]

    Returns void

  • The substringData() method of the CharacterData interface returns a portion of the existing data, starting at the specified index and extending for a given number of characters afterwards.

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    Parameters

    • offset: number
    • count: number

    Returns string

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