JavaScript Document method: importNode()
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The importNode() method (when applied to the
document object of the JavaScript
DOM) imports
node from another document (i.e. creates a copy of and inserts the copy into the
current document).
It
has the following syntax with the following parameters. It returns a Node object
representing the imported node.
document.importNode(node, deepness)
Parameter
|
Required / Optional
|
Description
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node
|
Required
|
Node object from other
document (any node type is permitted)
|
deepness
|
Required
|
Boolean value, which if
false means only import the
node itself, but if true then
also import all child nodes, i.e. descendents, of the node
|
Note: if you want to copy
a node from the current document then use element.cloneNode()
and if you want to remove a node from one document an import it into another
than use document.adoptNode().
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