Method createEntityReference of interface Document

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createEntityReference (method)

Owning interface and usage:

Document.createEntityReference(name)

Member of these other interfaces :

none

Description:

Creates an EntityReference object. In addition, if the referenced entity is known, the child list of the EntityReference node is made the same as that of the corresponding Entity node.

Parameters:

DOMString name

The name of the entity to reference.

Returns:

EntityReference - The new EntityReference object.

Exceptions:

DOMException INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an invalid character.

DOMException NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if this document is an HTML document.

Example: