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farjad
farjad

Reputation: 101

document.documentElement vs document.all

Can anybody tell me the difference between these two JavaScript commands?
Also what is the compatibility of these two across major browsers? I know documentElement is compatible with most browsers.

Thanks

Upvotes: 7

Views: 1943

Answers (2)

Mike Christensen
Mike Christensen

Reputation: 91686

document.documentElement is a reference to the root element of the document, usually the <html> tag.

document.all is a collection type, containing an enumeration of all the children tags within the document. It's IE specific and should be avoided for cross-browser scripts.

document.documentElement is DOM Level 2, so should work in pretty much any major browser these days.

Upvotes: 7

Tim
Tim

Reputation: 662

document.all is a proprietary Microsoft extension to the W3C-standard.
It's an old function and should not be used anymore!

rfc document.all vs. document.getElementById

Upvotes: 6

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