ownerDocument
March 10, 2010
Value: Document object reference
Compatibility: WinIE6+, MacIE5+, Moz1+, Safari1+
The ownerDocument property belongs to any element or node in the W3C DOM. The property’s value is a reference to the document node that ultimately contains the element or node. If a script encounters a reference to an element or node, the object’s ownerDocument property provides a way to build references to other objects in the same document or to access properties and methods of the document objects.
Example:
document.body.childNodes[5].ownerDocument
The result is a reference to the document object. You can use that to inspect a property of the document,
document.body.childNodes[5].ownerDocument.URL
This returns the document.URL property for the document that owns the child node.
Related Item: document object.
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