namedItem()

Summary

Retrieve a named flow by its name

Method of apis/css-regions/NamedFlowCollectionapis/css-regions/NamedFlowCollection

Syntax

var flow = flows.namedItem(name);

Parameters

name

Data-type

String

the name of the named flow

Return Value

Returns an object of type DOM NodeDOM Node

the NamedFlow object that corresponds to the specified name

Examples

Retrieve the main flow from the document, in one method-chained line:

var flow = document.getNamedFlows().namedItem('main');

Usage

 The NamedFlowCollection object is an array snapshot of a document's named flows. This method allows you to access a specific flow directly by its name, rather than by iterating over the array.

Related specifications

CSS Regions Module Level 1

W3C Working Draft 28 May 2013

See also

Related articles

Regions

• CSS Regions API

• CSSRegionStyleRule

• NamedFlow

• firstEmptyRegionIndex

• getContent()

• getRegions()

• getRegionsByContent()

• name

• overset

• regionfragmentchange

• regionoversetchange

• NamedFlowCollection

• namedItem()

• Region

• getComputedRegionStyle()

• getRegionFlowRanges()

• regionOverset

• @region

• content fragments

• named flows

• overset content

• regions

• region chains

• break-after

• break-before

• break-inside

• flow-from

• flow-into

External resources

• W3C editor’s draft: CSS Regions Module Level 3
• Adobe Web Standards: CSS Regions
• Adobe Developer’s Network: CSS3 Regions: Rich page layout with HTML and CSS3
• Sample pages