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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">plugins</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">3</span>  IE <span class="emphasis">4</span>  DOM <span class="emphasis">n/a</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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						<p>Navigator and Internet Explorer both have a
<span class="literal">plugins</span> array, but they are quite different
collections of objects. Navigator's and
IE/Macintosh's <span class="literal">plugins</span> array is a
property of the <span class="literal">navigator</span> object. Each item in the
<span class="literal">navigator.plugins</span> array represents a plugin that
is installed in the browser (actually just registered with the
browser when the browser last loaded). See the
<span class="literal">plugin</span> object.
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							<td colspan="2"><p>			On the Windows side, Internet Explorer's
<span class="literal">plugins</span> collection belongs to the
<span class="literal">document</span> object and essentially mirrors the
<span class="literal">embeds</span> collection: a collection of all
<span class="literal">embed</span> elements in the document. An
<span class="literal">embed</span> element may well, indeed, launch a plugin,
but not necessarily. Nor does Internet Explorer for Windows provide
JavaScript access to the installed plugins in the same way that
Navigator does (IE for Macintosh provides no such access).
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectmodelreference"><span class="title">Object Model Reference</span></td>
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						<ul><li><span class="literal"></span><span class="literal">navigator.plugins</span></li><li><span class="literal"></span><span class="literal">document.plugins</span></li></ul>
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						<table border="1"><tbody><tr><td><span class="literal">length</span></td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectspecificmethods"><span class="title">Object-Specific Methods</span></td>
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						<table border="1"><tbody><tr><td><span class="literal">item( )</span></td><td><span class="literal">namedItem( )</span></td>
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">length</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">3</span>  IE <span class="emphasis">4</span>  DOM <span class="emphasis">n/a</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Read-only&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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						<p>Returns the number of elements in the collection.</p>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="example"><span class="title">Example</span></td>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>var IEhowMany = document.plugins.length;
var NNhowMany = navigator.plugins.length;</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			Integer. </p>
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">item( )</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">6</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4(Win)</span>  DOM <span class="emphasis">n/a</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">item(<span class="replaceable">index</span>[, <span class="replaceable">subindex</span>])
item(<span class="replaceable">index</span>)</p>
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						<p>Returns a single object or collection of objects corresponding to the
item matching the index value (or, optionally, the index and subindex
values).
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						<ul><li><span class="literal"></span>When the parameter is a zero-based integer, the returned value is a
single element corresponding to the specified item in source code
order (nested within the current element). When the parameter is a
string (IE only), the returned value is a collection of elements with
<span class="literal">name</span> properties that match that string.
</li><li><span class="literal"></span>In IE only, if you specify a string value for the first parameter,
you can use the second parameter to specify a zero-based index that
retrieves the specified element from the collection with
<span class="literal">name</span> properties that match the first
parameter's string value.
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="returnedvalue"><span class="title">Returned Value</span></td>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			One object or collection (array) of objects. If there are no matches
to the parameters, the returned value is <span class="literal">null</span>.
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">namedItem( )</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">6</span> IE <span class="emphasis">6</span>  DOM <span class="emphasis">n/a</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">namedItem("<span class="replaceable">name</span>")</p>
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						<p>Returns a single <span class="literal">plugin</span> (NN) or
<span class="literal">embed</span> (IE) object corresponding to the element
matching the parameter string value.
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						<ul><li><span class="literal"></span>The string that contains the same value as the desired
object's <span class="literal">name</span> attribute.
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="returnedvalue"><span class="title">Returned Value</span></td>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			One <span class="literal">plugin</span> (NN) or <span class="literal">embed</span> (IE)
object. If there are no matches to the parameters, the returned value
is <span class="literal">null</span>.
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