User Guide

General editing functions 391
dom.getCharSet()
Availability
Dreamweaver 4.
Description
Returns the charset attribute in the meta tag of the document.
Arguments
None.
Returns
The encoding identity of the document. For example, for a Latin1 document, the function
returns
iso-8859-1.
dom.getFontMarkup()
Availability
Dreamweaver 3.
Description
Gets the value of the specified attribute of the FONT tag for the current selection.
Arguments
attribute
• The attribute argument must be "face", "size", or "color".
Returns
A string that contains the value of the specified attribute or an empty string if the attribute is
not set.
dom.getLineFromOffset()
Availability
Dreamweaver MX.
Description
Finds the line number of a specific character offset in the text (the HTML or JavaScript code) of
the file.
Arguments
offset
• The offset argument is an integer that represents the character location from the beginning
of the file.
Returns
An integer that represents the line number in the document.
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