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

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

Purpose: – Illustrates the for the .

View Other Anchor Object Properties and Methods

Prerequistes:

Syntax: object.name=languagecode – Allows you to retrieve or assign name for linked objects.

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 hrefuage
    • name of Web Site could be JavaScript_Syntax.
  3. Folder

  4. Add New folder named “HTMLDOMObjects”
    • Right-click project name in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: HTMLDOMObjects
  5. 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
  6. Add New subfolder to “DOMAnchor” subfolder named “AnchorObjectProperties”
    • Right-click subfolder named “DOMAnchor” in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: AnchorObjectProperties
  7. Add HTML Page Named name to AnchorObjectProperties subfolder
    • Right-click AnchorObjectProperties subfolder;
    • add new item;
    • Select HTML Page
    • HTML Page name should be name
  8. Click on copy code in code below to copy code into HTML Page name.htm
  9. Right-click on HTML page name.htm and select view in browser
View Example In Browser
< !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: name </title>
    <!-- 
    ***************************************************
    * This example is from http://idealprogrammer.com *
    ***************************************************
 
 
    -->
 
 
 
   </head>
  <body>
      <a href="http://www.google.com" id="idGoogle" name="nameGoogle">Google</a><br /><br />
      <a href="http://www.yahoo.com" id="idYahoo" name="nameYahoo">Yahoo</a><br /><br />
      <a href="http://idealprogrammer.com" id="idIdealProgrammer" name="nameIdealProgrammer">IdealProgrammer</a><br /><br />
      <a href="http://myqol.com" id="idProgressMonitor" name="nameProgressMonitor">ProgressMonitor</a><br /><br />
 
   <script type="text/javascript">
       //*****************************************************
       // DOM Objects
       //*****************************************************
 
 
       //*****************************************************
       //    ***    Anchor Object Properties   ***
       //*****************************************************
 
       //*****************************************************
       // name
       //*****************************************************
 
       //    SYNTAX:
       //    object.name=name  Allows you to retrieve or assign  
       //               a name to an object
 
       // Two ways to retrieve name   
       //   1. GetElementsByTagName
            myObject=document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
            document.write("Google - Using getElementsByTagName : " + myObject.name);
            document.write("<br />");
      //   2. GetElementById
            document.write("Yahoo - Using getElementById: ");
            document.write(document.getElementById('idYahoo').name);
 
            document.write("<br /><br />");
       // Two ways to assign name
 
            //   1. GetElementById
            myThirdElement = document.getElementById('idIdealProgrammer');
            myThirdElement.name = "New IdealProgrammer";
            document.write("<br />IdealProgrammer name changed to New Ideal Programmer: ", myThirdElement.name);
 
       //   2. GetElementsByTagName      
            myFourthElement = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[3];
            myFourthElement.name = "New Progress Monitor";
            document.write("<br />ProgressMonitor name changed to New Progress Monitor: ", myFourthElement.name)
 
</script>
 
  </body>
</html>