NAME

HTML::DOM::Element - A Perl class for representing elements in an HTML DOM tree

SYNOPSIS

  use HTML::DOM;
  $doc = HTML::DOM->new;
  $elem = $doc->createElement('a');

  $elem->setAttribute('href', 'http://www.perl.org/');
  $elem->getAttribute('href');
  $elem->tagName;
  # etc

DESCRIPTION

This class represents elements in an HTML::DOM tree. It is the base class for other element classes (see "CLASSES AND DOM INTERFACES" in HTML::DOM.) It implements the Element and HTMLElement DOM interfaces.

METHODS

Constructor

You should normally use HTML::DOM's createElement method. This is listed here only for completeness:

  $elem = new HTML::DOM::Element $tag_name;

$elem will automatically be blessed into the appropriate class for $tag_name.

Attributes

The following DOM attributes are supported:

tagName

Returns the tag name.

id

title

lang

dir

className

These five get (optionally set) the corresponding HTML attributes. Note that className corresponds to the class attribute.

Other Methods

See the DOM spec. for descriptions.

getAttribute

setAttribute

removeAttribute

getAttributeNode

setAttributeNode

removeAttributeNode

getElementsByTagName

normalize

normalize does not currently work properly.

SEE ALSO

HTML::DOM

HTML::DOM::Node

HTML::Element

All the HTML::Element subclasses listed under "CLASSES AND DOM INTERFACES" in HTML::DOM