appendHorizontalRule()

Creates and appends a new HorizontalRule.

The HorizontalRule will be contained in a new Paragraph.

Return

HorizontalRule — the new horizontal rule

appendImage(image)

Creates and appends a new InlineImage from the specified image blob.

The image will be contained in a new Paragraph.

Parameters

Return

InlineImage — the appended image

appendImage(image)

Appends the given InlineImage.

The InlineImage will be contained in a new Paragraph.

Use this version of appendImage when appending a copy of an existing InlineImage.

Parameters

Return

InlineImage — the appended image

appendListItem(listItem)

Appends the given ListItem.

Use this version of appendListItem when appending a copy of an existing ListItem.

Parameters

Return

ListItem — the appended list item

appendListItem(text)

Creates and appends a new ListItem containing the specified text contents.

Consecutive list items are added as part of the same list.

Parameters

Return

ListItem — the new list item

appendParagraph(paragraph)

Appends the given Paragraph.

Use this version of appendParagraph when appending a copy of an existing Paragraph.

Parameters

Return

Paragraph — the appended paragraph

appendParagraph(text)

Creates and appends a new Paragraph containing the specified text contents.

Parameters

Return

Paragraph — the new paragraph

appendTable()

Creates and appends a new Table.

Return

Table — the new table

appendTable(cells)

Appends a new Table containing a TableCell for each specified string value.

Parameters

Return

Table — the appended table

appendTable(table)

Appends the given Table.

Use this version of appendTable when appending a copy of an existing Table.

Parameters

Return

Table — the appended table

clear()

Clears the contents of the element.

Return

FooterSection — the current element

copy()

Returns a detached, deep copy of the current element.

Any child elements present in the element are also copied. The new element will not have a parent.

Return

FooterSection — the new copy

editAsText()

Obtains a Text version of the current element, for editing.

Use editAsText for manipulating the elements contents as rich text. The editAsText mode ignores non-text elements (such as InlineImage and HorizontalRule).

Child elements fully contained within a deleted text range are removed from the element.

 
var body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();

 // Insert two paragraphs separated by a paragraph containing an
 // horizontal rule.
 body.insertParagraph(0, "An editAsText sample.");
 body.insertHorizontalRule(0);
 body.insertParagraph(0, "An example.");

 // Delete " sample.\n\n An" removing the horizontal rule in the process.
 body.editAsText().deleteText(14, 25);
 

Return

Text — a text version of the current element

findElement(elementType)

Searches the contents of the element for a descendant of the specified type.

Parameters

Return

RangeElement — a search result indicating the position of the search element

findElement(elementType, from)

Searches the contents of the element for a descendant of the specified type, starting from the specified RangeElement.

 
// Get the body section of the active document.
 var body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();

 // Define the search parameters.
 var searchType = DocumentApp.ElementType.PARAGRAPH;
 var searchHeading = DocumentApp.ParagraphHeading.HEADING1;
 var searchResult = null;

 // Search until the paragraph is found.
 while (searchResult = body.findElement(searchType, searchResult)) {
   var par = searchResult.getElement().asParagraph();
   if (par.getHeading() == searchHeading) {
     // Found one, update and stop.
     par.setText('This is the first header.');
     return;
   }
 }
 

Parameters

Return

RangeElement — a search result indicating the next position of the search element

findText(searchPattern)

Searches the contents of the element for the specified text pattern using regular expressions.

A subset of the JavaScript regular expression features are not fully supported, such as capture groups and mode modifiers.

The provided regular expression pattern is independently matched against each text block contained in the current element.

Parameters

Return

RangeElement — a search result indicating the position of the search text, or null if there is no match

findText(searchPattern, from)

Searches the contents of the element for the specified text pattern, starting from a given search result.

A subset of the JavaScript regular expression features are not fully supported, such as capture groups and mode modifiers.

The provided regular expression pattern is independently matched against each text block contained in the current element.

Parameters

Return

RangeElement — a search result indicating the next position of the search text, or null if there is no match

getAttributes()

Retrieves the element's attributes.

The result is an object containing a property for each valid element attribute where each property name corresponds to an item in the DocumentApp.Attribute enumeration.

 
var body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();

 // Append a styled paragraph.
 var par = body.appendParagraph('A bold, italicized paragraph.');
 par.setBold(true);
 par.setItalic(true);

 // Retrieve the paragraph's attributes.
 var atts = par.getAttributes();

 // Log the paragraph attributes.
 for (var att in atts) {
   Logger.log(att + ":" + atts[att]);
 }
 

Return

Object — the element's attributes

getChild(childIndex)

Retrieves the child element at the specified child index.

 
// Get the body section of the active document.
 var body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();

 // Obtain the first element in the document.
 var firstChild = body.getChild(0);

 // If it's a paragraph, set its contents.
 if (firstChild.getType() == DocumentApp.ElementType.PARAGRAPH) {
   firstChild.asParagraph().setText("This is the first paragraph.");
 }
 

Parameters

Return

Element — the child element at the specified index

getChildIndex(child)

Retrieves the child index for the specified child element.

Parameters

Return

Integer — the child index

getImages()

Retrieves all the InlineImages contained in the section.

Return

InlineImage[] — the section images

getListItems()

Retrieves all the ListItems contained in the section.

Return

ListItem[] — the section list items

getNumChildren()

Retrieves the number of children.

 
// Get the body section of the active document.
 var body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();

 // Log the number of elements in the document.
 Logger.log("There are " + body.getNumChildren() +
     " elements in the document body.");
 

Return

Integer — the number of children

getParagraphs()

Retrieves all the Paragraphs contained in the section.

Return

Paragraph[] — the section paragraphs

getParent()

Retrieves the element's parent element.

The parent element contains the current element.

Return

ContainerElement — the parent element

getTables()

Retrieves all the Tables contained in the section.

Return

Table[] — the section tables

getText()

Retrieves the contents of the element as a text string.

Return

String — the contents of the element as text string

getTextAlignment()

Gets the text alignment. The available types of alignment are DocumentApp.TextAlignment.NORMAL, DocumentApp.TextAlignment.SUBSCRIPT, and DocumentApp.TextAlignment.SUPERSCRIPT.

Return

TextAlignment — the type of text alignment, or null if the text contains multiple types of text alignments or if the text alignment has never been set

getType()

Retrieves the element's ElementType.

Use getType() to determine the exact type of a given element.

 
var body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();

 // Obtain the first element in the document body.

 var firstChild = body.getChild(0);

 // Use getType() to determine the element's type.
 if (firstChild.getType() == DocumentApp.ElementType.PARAGRAPH) {
   Logger.log('The first element is a paragraph.');
 } else {
   Logger.log('The first element is not a paragraph.');
 }
 

Return

ElementType — the element type

insertHorizontalRule(childIndex)

Creates and inserts a new HorizontalRule at the specified index.

The HorizontalRule will be contained in a new Paragraph.

Parameters

Return

HorizontalRule — the new horizontal rule

insertImage(childIndex, image)

Creates and inserts an InlineImage from the specified image blob, at the specified index.

Parameters

Return

InlineImage — the inserted inline image

insertImage(childIndex, image)

Inserts the given InlineImage at the specified index.

The image will be contained in a new Paragraph.

Parameters

Return

InlineImage — the inserted inline image

insertListItem(childIndex, listItem)

Inserts the given ListItem at the specified index.

Parameters

Return

ListItem — the inserted list item

insertListItem(childIndex, text)

Creates and inserts a new ListItem at the specified index, containing the specified text contents.

Parameters

Return

ListItem — the new list item

insertParagraph(childIndex, paragraph)

Inserts the given Paragraph at the specified index.

Parameters

Return

Paragraph — the inserted paragraph

insertParagraph(childIndex, text)

Creates and inserts a new Paragraph at the specified index, containing the specified text contents.

Parameters

Return

Paragraph — the new paragraph

insertTable(childIndex)

Creates and inserts a new Table at the specified index.

Parameters

Return

Table — the new table

insertTable(childIndex, cells)

Creates and inserts a new Table containing the specified cells, at the specified index.

Parameters

Return

Table — the new table

insertTable(childIndex, table)

Inserts the given Table at the specified index.

Parameters

Return

Table — the inserted table

removeChild(child)

Removes the specified child element.

Parameters

Return

FooterSection — the current element

removeFromParent()

Removes the element from its parent.

 
var body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();

 // Remove all images in the document body.
 var imgs = body.getImages();
 for (var i = 0; i < imgs.length; i++) {
   imgs[i].removeFromParent();
 }
 

Return

FooterSection — the removed element

replaceText(searchPattern, replacement)

Replaces all occurrences of a given text pattern with a given replacement string, using regular expressions.

A subset of the JavaScript regular expression features are not fully supported, such as capture groups and mode modifiers.

The provided regular expression pattern is independently matched against each text block contained in the current element.

 
var body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();

 // Clear the text surrounding "Apps Script", with or without text.
 body.replaceText("^.*Apps ?Script.*$", "Apps Script");
 

Parameters

Return

Element — the current element

setAttributes(attributes)

Sets the element's attributes.

The specified attributes parameter must be an object where each property name is an item in the DocumentApp.Attribute enumeration and each property value is the new value to be applied.

 
var body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();

 // Define a custom paragraph style.
 var style = {};
 style[DocumentApp.Attribute.HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT] =
     DocumentApp.HorizontalAlignment.RIGHT;
 style[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_FAMILY] =
     DocumentApp.FontFamily.CALIBRI;
 style[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_SIZE] = 18;
 style[DocumentApp.Attribute.BOLD] = true;

 // Append a plain paragraph.
 var par = body.appendParagraph('A paragraph with custom style.');

 // Apply the custom style.
 par.setAttributes(style);
 

Parameters

Return

FooterSection — the current element

setText(text)

Sets the contents as plain text.

Note: existing contents are cleared.

Parameters

Return

FooterSection — the current element

setTextAlignment(textAlignment)

Sets the text alignment. The available types of alignment are DocumentApp.TextAlignment.NORMAL, DocumentApp.TextAlignment.SUBSCRIPT, and DocumentApp.TextAlignment.SUPERSCRIPT.

 
// Make the entire first paragraph be superscript.
 var text = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody().getParagraphs()[0].editAsText();
 text.setTextAlignment(DocumentApp.TextAlignment.SUPERSCRIPT);
 

Parameters

Return

FooterSection — the current element