The applets collection would return a collection of all possible elements available in the HTML document object model. Initially the element was used to embed the Java application with HTML DOM. Soon after the Javascript plugins were introduced, the applet element was deprecated.
Syntax:
length: The length property value would return the total number of elements present in the specified collection.
Note: This property is an absolute read-only property.
Method:
html Output:
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Supported Browsers:
document.appletsProperty values:
- index: The [index] method would return the element from the collection with the defined index that starting from 0. Note: It would return null if the index number is out of the stipulated range.
- item(index): The item(index) method would return the element from the collection with the defined index that starting from 0. Note: It would return null if the index number is out of the stipulated range.
- namedItem(id) : The namedItem(id) method would return the element from the collection with the mentioned id. Note: It would return null if the id found does not seems to exist.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>
HTML DOM applets Collection
</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color:green;width:100%">
GeeksForGeeks
</h1>
<h2>
HTML DOM applets Collection
</h2>
<br>
<p id="Geeks">
A Computer Science Portal for GEEKS
</p>
<button type="button"
onclick="geeks()">
applets
</button>
<script>
function geeks() {
var g = document.applets.length;
document.getElementById(
"Geeks").innerHTML = g.toString();
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
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Supported Browsers:
- Google Chrome 1.0
- Internet Explorer 4.0
- Firefox 1.0
- Opera 3.5
- Safari 1.0