The Object Scripting Model - The Document Object

The Document Object.

The Documents' properties.

• The alinkColor property (string)
  Can be used to return or set the colour of all the Active Links in the current document.
  e.g.

  1. <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
  2. <!--
  3. msgbox("Active Link Colour : " & document.alinkColor)
  4. document.alinkColor="#0000FF"
  5. -->
  6. </SCRIPT>
  This example sets the colour of all the Active Links to blue.

• The anchors property (the array of anchors in the current document)
  This returns the anchors array of the current document.

• The bgColor property (string)
  This returns or sets the background colour of the current document.
  e.g.

  1. <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
  2. <!--
  3. msgbox("Background Color : " & document.bgColor)
  4. document.bgColor="#FFFFFF"
  5. -->
  6. </SCRIPT>
  This example sets the background colour to white.

• The cookie property (string)
  Returns the cookie of the current document.
  e.g.

  1. <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
  2. <!--
  3. msgbox (document.cookie
  4. -->
  5. </SCRIPT>
  This displays the cookie information in a message box.

• The fgColor property (string)
  Returns or sets the foreground colour of the document.
  e.g.

  1. <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
  2. <!--
  3. msgbox("Foreground Colour : " & document.fgColor)
  4. document.bgColor="#FFFFFF"
  5. -->
  6. </SCRIPT>

• The forms property (the array of forms in the current document)
  Returns the forms array of the current document.

• The frames property (the array of frames in the current document)
  Returns the frames array of the current document. This returns the same array as the window.frames property.

• The lastModified property (string)
  Returns or sets the lastModified property, this contains the time and date the HTML document loaded was last modified.
  e.g.

  1. <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
  2. <!--
  3. msgbox ("The current HTML document was last modified on " & document.lastModified)
  4. -->
  5. </SCRIPT>

• The linkColor property (string)
  Returns or sets the link colour of the current document.
  e.g.

  1. <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
  2. <!--
  3. msgbox("Link Color : " & document.linkColor)
  4. document.linkColor="#00FF00"
  5. -->
  6. </SCRIPT>
  Gets the current link colour, displays it and then sets the colour to green.

• The links property (the array of links in the current document)
  This returns the links array of the current document.

• The location property (string)
  Returns or sets the location (URL) of the current document.
  e.g.

  1. <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
  2. <!--
  3. msgbox(document.location)
  4. -->
  5. </SCRIPT>
  Displays the location (URL) of the current document in a message box.

• The referrer property (string)
  Returns or sets the URL of the document that referrs to the current document.
  e.g.

  1. <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
  2. <!--
  3. msgbox (document.referrer)
  4. -->
  5. </SCRIPT>
  This example displays the URL of the referring document in a message box.

• The title property (string)
  Returns or sets the title of the current document.
  e.g.

  1. <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
  2. <!--
  3. msgbox (document.title)
  4. document.title = "Hello"
  5. -->
  6. </SCRIPT>
  This displays the document title in a message box, the changes it to "Hello".

• The vlinkColor property (string)
  Sets or returns the Visited Link Colour of the current document.
  e.g.

  1. <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
  2. <!--
  3. msgbox("Visited Link Colour : " & document.vlinkColor)
  4. document.vlinkColor="#FF0000"
  5. -->
  6. </SCRIPT>
  This example displays then sets the Visited Link Colour of the current document.