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dataFld attribute

Browser support:

Specifies which field of a given data source should be bound to the specified object.

In HTML, only Internet Explorer supports table creation dynamically from XML. If you want to implement similar functionality in other browsers, you need to use JavaScript. For further details, see the page for the XMLHttpRequest object.

JavaScript page for this attribute: dataFld. You can find other example(s) there.

Possible values:

String that sets the name of the data field.

Default: this attribute has no default value.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the dataFld attribute:

<xml id="movies">
<?xml version="1.0"?>
    <movies>
        <movie>
            <name>&lt;b&gt;Clark Kent&lt;/b&gt;</name>
            <jobtitle>Superman</jobtitle>
            <born>1966</born>
        </movie>
        <movie>
            <name>&lt;b&gt;Lois Lane&lt;/b&gt;</name>
            <jobtitle>Reporter</jobtitle>
            <born>1964</born>
        </movie>
    </movies>
</xml>

<table width="100%" cellpadding="0px" cellspacing="2px" border="1px" datasrc="#movies" datapagesize="2" >
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Jobtitle</th>
            <th>Born</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td><span datafld="name" dataformatas="html"></span></td>
            <td><span datafld="jobtitle"></span></td>
            <td><span datafld="born"></span></td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>