HTMLBaseElement : HTMLElement
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Allows authors to specify the document base URL for the purposes of resolving relative URLs, and the name of the default browsing context for the purposes of following hyperlinks. The element does not represent any content beyond this information.

Platform Support

Mozilla Chrome Safari Opera IE Netscape
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Constructors

Constructor Action Mozilla Chrome Safari Opera IE Netscape
HTMLBaseElement Constructor() : HTMLBaseElement
Creates an instance of the HTMLBaseElement.
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HTMLBaseElement() : HTMLBaseElement

Creates an instance of the HTMLBaseElement.

Returns
HTMLBaseElement

Visibility
internal

Properties

Property Action Mozilla Chrome Safari Opera IE Netscape
href : String
Contains a valid URL potentially surrounded by spaces.
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target : String
Specifies which browsing context is to be used as the default when hyperlinks and forms in the Document cause navigation.
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Inherited Functions

Method Action Mozilla Chrome Safari Opera IE Netscape
getElementsByClassName(String classNames) : NodeList
Returns a NodeList containing all the Element nodes with the specified classNames.
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Parameters
String classNames (one-or-more)A string representing the class name(s) of the elements to return. Multiple class names should be separated by spaces.

Returns
NodeList

Using getElementsByClassName

                        	                    document.getElementById("useCases").getElementsByClassName("question");

Would return a NodeList of all elements inside the element with the id "useCases" to which the class "question" applies.

                        	                    document.getElementById("useCases").getElementsByClassName("question issue");

Would return a NodeList of all elements inside the element with the id "useCases" to which both the classes "question" and "issue" apply.

Remarks

Returns a list of child elements to which the specified className applies. The returned NodeList is sorted in tree order (the order the elements were found during a depth-first preorder traversal through the node tree).

See Also

Document.getElementsByClassName|Element.getElementsByClassName|HTMLDocument.getElementsByClassName

Availability

HTML 5|W3C|W3C

References

HTMLBaseElement

Availability

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