JavaScript DOM HTML method: isEqualNode()
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The isEqualNode() method (when applied to HTML elements
in the JavaScript
DOM) returns true if two elements / nodes are
‘equal’, otherwise returns false.
Two nodes are deemed ‘equal’ if all the following are true, namely that they
have the same:
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Node type
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nodeName, nodeValue, localName, namespaceURI and prefix
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childNodes (including all descendants)
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same attributes and attribute values (although the attributes do not
need to be in the same order)
It
has the following syntax with the following parameters. It returns a Boolean
as above.
element.isEqualNode(node)
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Parameter
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Required / Optional
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Description
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node
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Required
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Node object which is
compared to the element (method can also be applied to a node object)
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