className Example JavaScript (JS): HTML DOM Objects – Anchor Object – className Example JavaScript (JS)

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className Example JavaScript (JS): HTML DOM Objects – Anchor Object – className Example JavaScript (JS)

Purpose: – Illustrates the for the .

View Other Anchor Object Properties and Methods

Prerequistes:

Syntax: object.className=name – Allows you to retrieve or assign className.

Restrictions: None

Notes:

  • You can build your own library of syntax examples by using same web site over and over and just add new files to it.

Instructions:

  1. Use Visual Web Developer 2008
  2. Create new web site;
    • Click File/New Web Site
    • Select ASP.NET Website Template
    • Select C-Sharp for Language
    • name of Web Site could be JavaScript_Syntax.

    3. Folder

  3. Add New folder named “HTMLDOMObjects”
    • Right-click project name in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: HTMLDOMObjects
  4. Add New subfolder to “HTMLDOMObjects” folder named “DOMAnchor”
    • Right-click folder named “HTMLDOMObjects” in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: DOMAnchor
  5. Add New subfolder to “DOMAnchor” subfolder named “StandardProperties”
    • Right-click subfolder named “DOMAnchor” in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: StandardProperties
  6. Add HTML Page Named className to StandardProperties subfolder
    • Right-click StandardProperties subfolder;
    • add new item;
    • Select HTML Page
    • HTML Page name should be className
  7. Click on copy code in code below to copy code into HTML Page className.htm
  8. Right-click on HTML page className.htm and select view in browser
    9. < !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
<html>
  <head>
    <title>IdealProgrammer.com: className </title>
    <!-- 
    ***************************************************
    * This example is from http://idealprogrammer.com *
    ***************************************************
    -->
    <style type="text/css" id="myStyle" >
 
       .myButtons
        {
            font-size:large;
        }
        .myButton2
        {
            font-size:xx-small;
        }
        .myButton3
        {
            background-color:#d0e4fe;
        }
 
 
    </style>
 
 
   </head>
  <body>
      <input id="Button1" type="button" class="myButtons" value="button" /><br /><br />
      <input id="Button2" type="button" class="myButton2" value="button" /><br /><br />
      <input id="Button3" type="button" class="myButton3" value="button" /><br /><br />
   <script type="text/javascript">
       //*****************************************************
       // DOM Objects
       //*****************************************************
 
 
       //*****************************************************
       //    ***    Anchor Object - Standard Properties   ***
       //*****************************************************
 
       //*****************************************************
       // className
       //*****************************************************
 
       //    SYNTAX:
       //    object.className=name  Allows you to retrieve or assign className
 
       // Two ways to retrieve className   
       //   1. GetElementsByTagName
            myObject=document.getElementsByTagName('input')[0];
            document.write("Using getElementsByTagName: " + myObject.className);
            document.write("<br />");
      //   2. GetElementById
            document.write("Using getElementById: ");
            document.write(document.getElementById('Button1').className);
 
 
       // Two ways to assign className
 
       //   1. GetElementById
            document.getElementById('Button2').className = "myButton2"
       //   2. GetElementsByTagName      
            myThirdButton = document.getElementsByTagName('input')[2];
            myThirdButton.className = "myButton3";
 
</script>
 
  </body>
</html>

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