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    The Dom\Element class

    (PHP 8 >= 8.4.0)

    Introduction

    Represents an element.

    This is the modern, spec-compliant equivalent of DOMElement.

    Class synopsis

    class Dom\Element extends Dom\Node implements Dom\ParentNode, Dom\ChildNode {
    /* Inherited constants */
    public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED = 0x1;
    public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING = 0x2;
    public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING = 0x4;
    public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS = 0x8;
    public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY = 0x10;
    public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC = 0x20;
    /* Properties */
    public readonly ?string $namespaceURI;
    public readonly ?string $prefix;
    public readonly string $localName;
    public readonly string $tagName;
    public string $id;
    public string $className;
    public readonly Dom\TokenList $classList;
    public readonly Dom\NamedNodeMap $attributes;
    public readonly ?Dom\Element $firstElementChild;
    public readonly ?Dom\Element $lastElementChild;
    public readonly int $childElementCount;
    public readonly ?Dom\Element $previousElementSibling;
    public readonly ?Dom\Element $nextElementSibling;
    public string $innerHTML;
    public string $substitutedNodeValue;
    /* Inherited properties */
    public readonly int $nodeType;
    public readonly string $nodeName;
    public readonly string $baseURI;
    public readonly bool $isConnected;
    public readonly ?Dom\Document $ownerDocument;
    public readonly ?Dom\Node $parentNode;
    public readonly ?Dom\Element $parentElement;
    public readonly Dom\NodeList $childNodes;
    public readonly ?Dom\Node $firstChild;
    public readonly ?Dom\Node $lastChild;
    public readonly ?Dom\Node $previousSibling;
    public readonly ?Dom\Node $nextSibling;
    public ?string $nodeValue;
    public ?string $textContent;
    /* Methods */
    /* Not documented yet */
    /* Inherited methods */
    /* Not documented yet */
    }

    Properties

    namespaceURI
    The namespace URI of the element.
    prefix
    The namespace prefix of the element.
    localName
    The local name of the element.
    tagName
    The HTML-uppercased qualified name of the element.
    className

    A string representing the classes of the element separated by spaces.

    classList
    Returns an instance of Dom\TokenList to easily manage the classes on this element.
    attributes
    Returns an instance of Dom\NamedNodeMap that represents the attributes of this element.
    id

    Reflects the element ID through the "id" attribute.

    firstElementChild

    First child element or null.

    lastElementChild

    Last child element or null.

    childElementCount

    The number of child elements.

    previousElementSibling

    The previous sibling element or null.

    nextElementSibling

    The next sibling element or null.

    innerHTML
    The inner HTML (or XML for XML documents) of the element.
    substitutedNodeValue
    The node value with entity substitution enabled.

    Notes

    Note: The DOM extension uses UTF-8 encoding when working with methods or properties. The parser methods auto-detect the encoding or allow the caller to specify an encoding.

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