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self

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  2. Browser compatibility

The self axis indicates the context node itself. It can be abbreviated as a single period (.).

Specifications

Specification Status Comment
Unknown
The definition of 'self' in that specification.
Unknown  
Unknown
The definition of 'self' in that specification.
Unknown  
Unknown
The definition of 'self' in that specification.
Unknown  
Unknown
The definition of 'self' in that specification.
Unknown Initial definition.

Browser compatibility

No compatibility data found. Please contribute data for "xpath.axes.self" (depth: 1) to the MDN compatibility data repository.

Document Tags and Contributors

Tags: 
  • Axe
  • XPath
Contributors to this page: ExE-Boss, SphinxKnight, Fredchat, Sheppy, Mgjbot, Takenbot, Ptak82, CitizenK, Dria
Last updated by: ExE-Boss, Jun 11, 2018, 11:32:38 AM
  1. Web technology for developers
  2. XPath
  3. Axes
  4. self
Related Topics
  1. Axes
    1. Axes
    2. ancestor
    3. ancestor-or-self
    4. attribute
    5. child
    6. descendant
    7. descendant-or-self
    8. following
    9. following-sibling
    10. namespace
    11. parent
    12. preceding
    13. preceding-sibling
    14. self
  2. Functions
    1. Functions
    2. boolean
    3. ceiling
    4. choose
    5. concat
    6. contains
    7. count
    8. current
    9. document
    10. element-available
    11. false
    12. floor
    13. format-number
    14. function-available
    15. generate-id
    16. id
    17. key
    18. lang
    19. last
    20. local-name
    21. name
    22. namespace-uri
    23. normalize-space
    24. not
    25. number
    26. position
    27. round
    28. starts-with
    29. string
    30. string-length
    31. substring
    32. substring-after
    33. substring-before
    34. sum
    35. system-property
    36. translate
    37. true
    38. unparsed-entity-url
  3. Index
  4. XPath snippets

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