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HTML Element: <details>

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The HTML <details> element indicates additional details that a user can view or hide. It is new in HTML 5.

 

The attributes it can take (other than HTML global attributes and HTML event attributes) include:

 

Attribute

Description

More

open

Whether details should be visible (i.e. open) to user

Here

 

To create or access such an element in JavaScript see here. The corresponding HTML DOM object supports standard DOM properties and methods, and additional properties with the same name and meaning as the attributes of the underlying HTML element referred to above. The default style applicable to this element is shown here.

 

EXAMPLE:


HTML USED IN THIS EXAMPLE:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <!-- Copyright (c) Nematrian Limited 2018 -->
<head></head>
<body>
Created using HTML:<br>
<details>details</details>

<br><br>Created using JavaScript:<br>
<span id="element"></span>

<script>
var x = document.createElement("DETAILS");
x.textContent = "details";
// or use var txt = document.createTextNode("details");
// x.appendChild(txt);
document.getElementById("element").appendChild(x);
</script>

</body>
</html>


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