get methods of DOM objects

[oeyvind toft]

I`m writing a script (for IE6) that scans a html file for all kind of
properties. Selecting
an object or an object id causes its propertynames and values to be written
to a textarea.

To get a list of functions supported by the object I use an array of
functionnames to test against.
However, while this works fine it is not very practical.

Is there a way to get the names of the methods of various DOM objects ?
Or are all marked as not enumerable and not accessable in any way?


Oeyvind

 

[Martin Honnen]

I`m writing a script (for IE6) that scans a html file for all kind of
properties. Selecting
an object or an object id causes its propertynames and values to be written
to a textarea.

Is there a way to get the names of the methods of various DOM objects ?
Or are all marked as not enumerable and not accessable in any way?

That depends on the browser, try to enumerate e.g.

function getObjectProperties (object) {
var result = '';
for (var property in object) {
result += property + ': ' + object[property] + '\r\n';
}
return result;
}

getObjectProperties(document.body)

and check the result, here with IE 6 on Windows XP some event handler
attributes are listed but other methods not.

 

[oeyvind toft]

and check the result, here with IE 6 on Windows XP some event handler
attributes are listed but other methods not.

Thanks for your reply Martin.

I`ve done the basic object scanning in about the same way as you do. And I
get the same result:
some handlers.

However, what I`m interested in is the
addBehavior, applyElement, appendChild etc...methods.

Its easy to set up an array and test for those methods, but as I said,
a bit inpractical.

(Allthou I`m currently looking for a complete list (not info, just a simple
list) of all the IE6 DOM object methods that could
be useful when setting up a complete function names array)


Oeyvind


http://home.online.no/~oeyvtoft/ToftWeb/

 

[Martin Honnen]

oeyvind toft wrote:

(Allthou I`m currently looking for a complete list (not info, just a simple
list) of all the IE6 DOM object methods that could
be useful when setting up a complete function names array)

MSDN has a list
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods.asp

 

[oeyvind toft]

Perfect, just what I was looking for...)

Thanks again Martin

Oeyvind