DOM Nodes

Table of Contents

• Node
• NonElementParentNode
• ParentNode
• NonDocumentTypeChildNode
• ChildNode
• Slottable
• Document
• DOMImplementation
• DocumentType
• DocumentFragment
• ShadowRoot
• Element
• Attr
• CharacterData
• Text
• CDATASection
• ProcessingInstruction
• Comment
• AbstractRange
• StaticRange
• Range
• NodeIterator
• TreeWalker
• NodeFilter
• DOMTokenList

✔ = Implemented ❌ = Not Implemented

Node

Feature	Status	Notes
nodeType	✔
nodeName	✔
baseURI	✔
isConnected	✔
ownerDocument	✔
getRootNode()	✔
parentNode	✔
parentElement	✔
hasChildNodes()	✔
firstChild	✔
lastChild	✔
previousSibling	✔
nextSibling	✔
nodeValue	✔
textContent	✔
normalize()	✔
cloneNode()	✔
isEqualNode()	✔
isSameNode()	✔
compareDocumentPosition()	✔
contains()	✔
lookupPrefix()	✔
lookupNamespaceURI()	✔
isDefaultNamespace()	✔
insertBefore()	✔
appendChild()	✔
replaceChild()	✔
removeChild()	✔

NonElementParentNode

Feature	Status	Notes
getElementById()	✔

ParentNode

Feature	Status	Notes
children	✔
firstElementChild	✔
lastElementChild	✔
childElementCount	✔
prepend()	✔
append()	✔
replaceChildren()	✔
querySelector()	❌
querySelectorAll()	❌

NonDocumentTypeChildNode

Feature	Status	Notes
previousElementSibling	✔
nextElementSibling	✔

ChildNode

Feature	Status	Notes
before()	✔
after()	✔
replaceWith()	✔
remove()	✔

Slottable

Feature	Status	Notes
assignedSlot	❌

Document

extends Node

includes NonElementParentNode

includes ParentNode

Feature	Status	Notes
implementation	✔
URL	✔
documentURI	✔
compatMode	✔
characterSet	✔
charset	✔
inputEncoding	✔
contentType	✔
doctype	✔
documentElement	✔
getElementsByTagName()	✔
getElementsByTagNameNS()	✔
getElementsByClassName()	✔
createElement()	✔	Does not accept ElementCreationOptions
createElementNS()	✔	Does not accept ElementCreationOptions
createDocumentFragment()	✔
createTextNode()	✔
createCDATASection()	✔
createComment()	✔
createProcessingInstruction()	✔
importNode()	✔
adoptNode()	✔
createAttribute()	✔
createAttributeNS()	✔
createEvent()	❌
createRange()	✔
createNodeIterator()	✔
createTreeWalker()	✔

DOMImplementation

Feature	Status	Notes
createDocumentType()	✔
createDocument()	✔
createHTMLDocument()	✔
hasFeature()	❌

DocumentType

extends Node

includes ChildNode

Feature	Status	Notes
node	✔
publicId	✔
systemId	✔

DocumentFragment

extends Node

includes NonElementParentNode

includes ParentNode

Feature	Status	Notes
constructor()	❌	Use Document.createDocumentFragment() instead

ShadowRoot

extends DocumentFragment

Feature	Status	Notes
mode	❌
delegatesFocus	❌
slotAssignment	❌
host	❌
innerHTML	❌

Element

extends Node

includes Slottable

includes ParentNode

includes NonDocumentTypeChildNode

includes ChildNode

Feature	Status	Notes
namespaceURI	✔
prefix	✔
localName	✔
tagName	✔
id	✔
className	✔
classList	✔
slot	❌
attributes	✔
getAttributeNames()	✔
getAttribute()	✔
getAttributeNS()	✔
setAttribute()	✔
setAttributeNS()	✔
removeAttribute()	✔
removeAttributeNS()	✔
toggleAttribute()	✔
hasAttribute()	✔
hasAttributeNS()	✔
getAttributeNode()	✔
getAttributeNodeNS()	✔
setAttributeNode()	✔
setAttributeNodeNS()	✔
remoteAttributeNode()	✔
attachShadowRoot()	❌
shadowRoot	❌
closest()	❌
matches()	❌
getElementsByTagName()	✔
getElementsByTagNameNS()	✔
getElementsByClassName()	✔
insertAdjacentElement()	✔
insertAdjacentText()	✔
insertAdjacentHTML()	✔
innerHTML	✔	Setter does nothing on XML documents
outerHTML	✔	Setter does nothing on XML documents

Attr

extends Node

Feature	Status	Notes
namespaceURI	✔
prefix	✔
localName	✔
name	✔
value	✔
ownerElement	✔
specified	❌

CharacterData

Note: All text is UTF-8, which means that any offsets should be specified in UTF-8 code points, rather than UTF-16 code units.

extends Node

includes NonDocumentTypeChildNode

includes ChildNode

Feature	Status	Notes
data	✔
length	✔
substringData()	✔
appendData()	✔
insertData()	✔
deleteData()	✔
replaceData()	✔

Text

extends CharacterData

includes Slottable

Feature	Status	Notes
constructor()	❌	Use Docuement.createTextNode() instead
splitText()	✔
wholeText	✔

CDATASection

extends Text

ProcessingInstruction

extends CharacterData

Feature	Status	Notes
target	✔

Comment

extends CharacterData

Feature	Status	Notes
constructor()	❌	Use Document.createComment() instead

AbstractRange

Feature	Status	Notes
startContainer	✔
startOffset	✔
endContainer	✔
endOffset	✔
collapsed	✔

StaticRange

extends AbstractRange

Feature	Status	Notes
constructor()	❌

Range

Also known as a live range.

extends AbstractRange

Feature	Status	Notes
constructor()	❌	Use Document.createRange() instead.
commonAncestorContainer	✔
setStart()	✔
setEnd()	✔
setStartBefore()	✔
setStartAfter()	✔
setEndBefore()	✔
setEndAfter()	✔
collapse()	✔
selectNode()	✔
selectNodeContents()	✔
compareBoundaryPoints()	✔
deleteContents()	✔
extractContents()	✔
cloneContents()	✔
insertNode()	✔
surroundContents()	✔
cloneRange()	✔
detatch()	✔
isPointInRange()	✔
comparePoint()	✔
intersectsNode()	✔
stringifier	✔
createContextualFragment()	✔

NodeIterator

Feature	Status	Notes
root	✔
referenceNode	✔
pointerBeforeReferenceNode	✔
whatToShow	✔
filter	✔
nextNode()	✔
previousNode()	✔
detach()	✔

TreeWalker

Feature	Status	Notes
root	✔
whatToShow	✔
filter	✔
currentNode	✔
parentNode()	✔
firstChild()	✔
lastChild()	✔
previousSibling()	✔
nextSibling()	✔
previousNode()	✔
nextNode()	✔

NodeFilter

Feature	Status	Notes
acceptNode()	✔

DOMTokenList

Feature	Status	Notes
length	✔
item()	✔
contains()	✔
add()	✔
remove()	✔
toggle()	✔
replace()	✔
supports()	❌
value	✔