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XML DOM nodeType Property


Element Object Reference Element Object

Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and gets the node type from the first <title> element:

var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (xhttp.readyState == 4 && xhttp.status == 200) {
        myFunction(xhttp);
    }
};
xhttp.open("GET", "books.xml", true);
xhttp.send();

function myFunction(xml) {
    var xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
    var x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
    x.nodeType;
}

The output of the code above will be:

1
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Definition and Usage

The nodeType property returns node type of the selected node.

Syntax

elementNode.nodeType

Node Number: Node Name:
1 Element
2 Attribute
3 Text
4 CDATA Section
5 Entity Reference
6 Entity
7 Processing Instruction
8 Comment
9 Document
10 Document Type
11 Document Fragment
12 Notation

Try-It-Yourself Demos

nodeType - Skip empty text nodes


Element Object Reference Element Object