HTMLOutputElement : HTMLElement
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Represent the result of a calculation.

Platform Support

Mozilla Chrome Safari Opera IE Netscape
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Constructors

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

Creates an instance of the HTMLOutputElement.

Returns
HTMLOutputElement

Visibility
internal

Properties

Property Action Mozilla Chrome Safari Opera IE Netscape
htmlFor : DOMSettableTokenList
Allows an explicit relationship to be made between the result of a calculation and the elements that represent the values that went into the calculation or that otherwise influenced the calculation.
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form : HTMLFormElement
Used to explicitly associate the output element with its form owner.
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name : String
Specifies the name of the output element.
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type : String
Returns the string "output".
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defaultValue : String
Returns the element's current default value.
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value : String
Acts like the element's textContent IDL attribute, except that on setting, in addition, before the child nodes are changed, the element's value mode flag must be set to value.
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willValidate : Boolean
Specifies whether the element will be validated when the form is submitted.
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validity : ValidityState
Specifies the validity of the element.
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validationMessage : String
Specifies a suitably localized message that the user agent would show the user if this were the only form control with a validity constraint problem.
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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

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Functions

Method Action Mozilla Chrome Safari Opera IE Netscape
checkValidity() : Boolean
The user agent must instanceally validate the constraints of the form element, and return true if the constraint validation return a positive result, and false if it returned a negative result.
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Returns
Boolean

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setCustomValidity(String error) : void
Sets the custom validity error message to the value of the given message argument.
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Parameters
String error The error message for the validity check.

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References

HTMLOutputElement

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