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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">script</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">6</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span> DOM <span class="emphasis">1</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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						<p>The <span class="literal">script</span> object reflects the
<span class="literal">script</span> element. Internet Explorer 4 for Windows
chokes on accessing or setting the <span class="literal">innerHTML</span> or
<span class="literal">innerText</span> properties, but the equivalent
<span class="literal">text</span> property is safe. IE 5 for the Macintosh
implements the <span class="literal">readyState</span> property (shared among
all elements in IE for Windows) for this object.
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="htmlequivalent"><span class="title">HTML Equivalent</span></td>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;script&gt;</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectmodelreference"><span class="title">Object Model Reference</span></td>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>[window.]document.getElementById("<span class="replaceable">elementID</span>")</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectspecificproperties"><span class="title">Object-Specific Properties</span></td>
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						<table border="1"><tbody><tr><td><span class="literal">charset</span></td><td><span class="literal">defer</span></td><td><span class="literal">event</span></td><td><span class="literal">htmlFor</span></td><td><span class="literal">src</span></td><td><span class="literal">text</span></td><td><span class="literal">type</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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					<td colspan="2"><p>			None. </p>
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						<table border="1"><tbody><th>Handler</th><th>NN</th><th>IE</th><th>DOM</th><tr><td>onerror</td><td>n/a</td><td>4</td><td>n/a</td>
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								<tr><td>onload</td><td>n/a</td><td>4</td><td>n/a</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal"></p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Read/Write&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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						<p>Indicates the character encoding of the script content.</p>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>if (document.getElementById("myScript").charset == "csISO5427Cyrillic") {
    // process for Cyrillic charset
}</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>			Case-insensitive alias from the character set registry (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets).
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			Determined by browser.</p>
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">defer</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">6</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span> DOM <span class="emphasis">1</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal"></p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Read/Write&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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						<p>Specifies whether the browser should proceed with rendering regular
HTML content without looking for the script to generate content as
the page loads. This value needs to be set in the
<span class="literal">script</span> element's tag at runtime.
When this property is set to <span class="literal">true</span> by the addition
of the <span class="literal">DEFER</span> attribute to the tag, the browser
does not have to hold up rendering further HTML content to parse the
content of the <span class="literal">script</span> element in search of
<span class="literal">document.write( )</span> statements. Changing this
property's value after the document loads does not
affect the performance of the script or browser. Although Netscape 6
implements the property, it is not functional.
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>if (document.getElementById("myScript").defer = = "true") {
    ...
}</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>			Boolean value: <span class="literal">true</span> | <span class="literal">false</span>.</p>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			<span class="literal">false</span></p>
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">event</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">6</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span> DOM <span class="emphasis">1</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>Internet Explorer's event model allows binding of
object events to <span class="literal">script</span> elements with the help of
the <span class="literal">event</span> and <span class="literal">for</span> attributes
(see Chapter 6). The <span class="literal">event</span>
property returns the setting for the <span class="literal">event</span>
attribute. Not functional in Netscape 6.
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>if (document.getElementById("gizmoScript").event == "onresize") {
    ...
}</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>			Case-sensitive event name string.</p>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			None. </p>
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">htmlFor</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">6</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span> DOM <span class="emphasis">1</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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						<p>Returns the value (element ID) assigned to the <span class="literal">for</span>
attribute of a <span class="literal">script</span> element. This attribute
points to the ID of the element to which the script is bound when a
specific event (set by the <span class="literal">event</span> attribute) fires
for the element. Not functional in Netscape 6.
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>if (document.getElementById("helpScript").htmlFor == "helpButton") {
    ...
}</pre>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			String.</p>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			None. </p>
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						<tr><td valign="top" class="name">readyState</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">n/a</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span> DOM <span class="emphasis">n/a</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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							<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>			Returns the current download status of the object's
		content. If a script (especially one initiated by a user event) can
		perform some actions while the document is still loading, but must
		avoid other actions until the entire page has loaded, this property
		provides intermediate information about the loading process. You
		should use its value in condition tests. The value of this property
		changes during loading as the loading state changes. Each change of
		the property value fires an <span class="literal">onReadyStateChange</span>
		event (the event does not bubble).
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									<td colspan="2"><p>			When introduced with IE 4, the property was available for only the
		<span class="literal">document</span>, <span class="literal">embed</span>,
		<span class="literal">img</span>, <span class="literal">link</span>,
		<span class="literal">object</span>, <span class="literal">script</span>, and
		<span class="literal">style</span> objects. IE 5 expanded coverage to all HTML
		element objects.
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							<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>if (document.readyState == "loading") {
		    //statements for alternate handling while loading
		}</pre>
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							<td colspan="2"><p>			For all but the <span class="literal">object</span> element, one of the
		following values (as strings): <span class="literal">uninitialized</span> |
		<span class="literal">loading</span> | <span class="literal">loaded</span> |
		<span class="literal">interactive</span> | <span class="literal">complete</span>. Some
		elements may allow the user to interact with partial content, in
		which case the property may return <span class="literal">interactive</span>
		until all loading has completed. Not all element types return all
		values in sequence during the loading process. The
		<span class="literal">object</span> element returns numeric values for these
		five states. They range from <span class="literal">0</span>
		(<span class="literal">uninitialized</span>) to <span class="literal">4</span>
		(<span class="literal">complete</span>).
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							<td colspan="2"><p>			None.</p>
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">src</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">6</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span> DOM <span class="emphasis">1</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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						<p>Provides the URL of the .<span class="emphasis">js</span> script file imported
into the current <span class="literal">script</span> element. If you assign a
new <span class="emphasis">.js</span> file to an existing script element in
IE, the previous <span class="emphasis">.js</span> file's
scripts do not disappear. But any duplications of variable or
functions names are overwritten by the definitions from the new file.
While Netscape 6 and later do not complain when you assign a new
value to this property, the assignment does not necessarily load the
new scripts into the current window or frame.
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>if (document.getElementsByTagName("script")[1].src == "scripts/textlib.js") {
    ...
}</pre>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			Complete or relative URL as a string.</p>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			None. </p>
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		</div><div id="text">
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">text</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">6</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span> DOM <span class="emphasis">1</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Read/Write&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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						<p>Indicates the text content of the element. Assigning script
statements to this object has different results in various browsers.
In late versions of IE for Windows, the new value is added to the
existing script, even though the property no longer reports the
previous script text; in Netscape 6, the assigned values are ignored;
and in IE 5 for Macintosh, the property is treated as read-only.
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>var scriptText = document.getElementById("script3").text;</pre>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			String.</p>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			None. </p>
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		</div><div id="type">
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">type</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">6</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span> DOM <span class="emphasis">1</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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						<p>Provides an advisory about the content type of the script statements.
The content type should tell the browser which scripting engine to
use to interpret the script statements, such as
<span class="literal">text/javascript</span>. The <span class="literal">type</span>
attribute may eventually replace the <span class="literal">language</span>
attribute as the one defining the scripting language in which the
element's statements are written.
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>var scriptMIMEtype = document.getElementById("script3").type;</pre>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			String.</p>
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