ProcessingInstruction : Node

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Platform Support

IE	Mozilla	Netscape	Opera	Safari	Chrome
no	1.0+	7.0+	no	no	no

Constructors

Constructor	Action	IE	Mozilla	Netscape	Opera	Safari	Chrome
ProcessingInstruction Constructor() : ProcessingInstruction Represents a Processing Instruction in an XML document.	Show Details	no	1.0+	7.0+	no	no	no
ProcessingInstruction() : ProcessingInstruction Represents a Processing Instruction in an XML document. Returns ProcessingInstruction Visibility internal

Properties

Property	Action	IE	Mozilla	Netscape	Opera	Safari	Chrome
data : String PI data or content	Show Details	no	1.0+	7.0+	no	no	no
For examples, see the quirksmode test page: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/tests/data.html Remarks Represents the content data of a processing instruction. This is the entire text between the target name and the closing ?> tag. Setting this value throws an exception if this node is marked as read-only. Availability HTML DOM Level 1|HTML DOM Level 2|W3C
target : String PI target name	Show Details	no	1.0+	7.0+	no	no	no
Remarks This is the name of this processing instruction. This is the text immediately following <? and and before the data. Availability HTML DOM Level 1|HTML DOM Level 2|W3C

Remarks

Represents a Processing Instruction, which is a way to keep document processing information inside an XML document. For instance, instructions on which stylesheets to apply can be defined in a processing instruction, even though that isn't directly related to the content of the document.

Availability

HTML DOM Level 1|HTML DOM Level 2|W3C