The interfaces of the model object of HTML or XML document are derived from the common interface, Node, except lists of nodes.
Interfaces to the structure
The Node interface offers methods to modify the document structure, which all derived interfaces inherit.
All interfaces, such as Node, allow to add, delete, or replace elements of the branches.
Node
Document
Allows you to create elements or to obtain a list based on ID or tag name.
DocumentFragment
Lightweight version of document, without attributes or methods.
Element
To access the attributes of a node or create them.
NodeList
List of nodes accessed by index position in a table.
NamedNodeMap
List of nodes accessible by name.
Interfaces to content
These interfaces also derived from Node can read the textual content of a tag or property, and modify it.
Node
Attr
Attribute. We read or change its value.
CharacterData
To read or edit the text in a tag.
Text
Represents the textual content and adds a method to split ot into two parts. A part remains in place, the other is deleted from the node and returned.
CDATASection
Version of a text in which special characters are escaped.
Comment
Represents a comment delimited by <!-- and -->
ProcessingInstruction
Represents an instruction to execute.
Interfaces to metadata
Allow to obtain information on the type of document. Data can only be read or added when creating the document.
Node
DocumentType
Represents the Doctype format.
<!DOCTYPE ...
Notation
Elements of the DTD.
Entity
The Doctype is a list of entities.
EntityReference
Allows you to insert a reference to an entity.
Data types
DOMString
String.
DOMTimeStamp
A number of milliseconds.