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Gets a reference to the root node of the document.

Syntax

[ oElement = ] document.documentElement

Possible Values

oElement

Object that receives the reference to the document element.

The property is read-only. The property has no default value.

Remarks

The root node of a typical HTML document is the html object.

Example

This example uses the documentElement property to get the innerHTML property of the entire document.

<SCRIPT>
function fnGetHTML(){
   var sData = document.documentElement.innerHTML;
   oResults.value=sData;
}
</SCRIPT>

<TEXTAREA ID = oResults COLS = 50 ROWS = 10>
</TEXTAREA>

Standards Information

This property is defined in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 .

Applies To

document