org.w3c.dom.html
Interface HTMLDocument

All Superinterfaces:

Document, Node

All Known Implementing Classes:

HTMLDocumentImpl

public interface HTMLDocument
extends Document

An HTMLDocument is the root of the HTML hierarchy andholds the entire content. Beside providing access to the hierarchy, italso provides some convenience methods for accessing certain sets ofinformation from the document.

The following properties have been deprecated in favor of the corresponding ones for the BODY element:alinkColorbackgroundbgColorfgColor linkColorvlinkColor

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node

ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE

Method Summary

void	close() Closes a document stream opened by open()and forces rendering.
HTMLCollection	getAnchors() A collection of all the anchor (A) elements in a document with a value for the name attribute.Note.
HTMLCollection	getApplets() A collection of all the OBJECT elements that includeapplets and APPLET (deprecated) elements ina document.
HTMLElement	getBody() The element that contains the content for the document.
java.lang.String	getCookie() The cookies associated with this document.
java.lang.String	getDomain() The domain name of the server that served the document, or a nullstring if the server cannot be identified by a domain name.
Element	getElementById(java.lang.String elementId) Returns the Element whose id is given by elementId.
NodeList	getElementsByName(java.lang.String elementName) Returns the (possibly empty) collection of elements whosename value is given by elementName.
HTMLCollection	getForms() A collection of all the forms of a document.
HTMLCollection	getImages() A collection of all the IMG elements in a document.The behavior is limited to IMG elements forbackwards compatibility.
HTMLCollection	getLinks() A collection of all AREA elements andanchor (A) elements in a documentwith a value for the href attribute.
java.lang.String	getReferrer() Returns the URI of the page that linked to this page.
java.lang.String	getTitle() The title of a document as specified by the TITLEelement in the head of the document.
java.lang.String	getURL() The complete URI of the document.
void	open() Note.This method and the ones following allow a user to add to or replace the structuremodel of a document using strings of unparsed HTML.
void	setBody(HTMLElement body)
void	setCookie(java.lang.String cookie)
void	setTitle(java.lang.String title)
void	write(java.lang.String text) Write a string of text to a document stream opened byopen().
void	writeln(java.lang.String text) Write a string of text followed by a newline character to a document stream opened by open().

Methods inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Document

adoptNode, createAttribute, createAttributeNS, createCDATASection, createComment, createDocumentFragment, createElement, createElementNS, createEntityReference, createProcessingInstruction, createTextNode, getDoctype, getDocumentElement, getDocumentURI, getDomConfig, getElementsByTagName, getElementsByTagNameNS, getImplementation, getInputEncoding, getStrictErrorChecking, getXmlEncoding, getXmlStandalone, getXmlVersion, importNode, normalizeDocument, renameNode, setDocumentURI, setStrictErrorChecking, setXmlStandalone, setXmlVersion

Methods inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node

appendChild, cloneNode, compareDocumentPosition, getAttributes, getBaseURI, getChildNodes, getFeature, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeName, getNodeType, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, getTextContent, getUserData, hasAttributes, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isDefaultNamespace, isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setNodeValue, setPrefix, setTextContent, setUserData

Method Detail

getTitle

java.lang.String getTitle()

The title of a document as specified by the TITLEelement in the head of the document.

setTitle

void setTitle(java.lang.String title)

getReferrer

java.lang.String getReferrer()

Returns the URI of the page that linked to this page. The value isan empty string if the user navigated to the page directly (notthrough a link, but, for example, via a bookmark).

getDomain

java.lang.String getDomain()

The domain name of the server that served the document, or a nullstring if the server cannot be identified by a domain name.

getURL

java.lang.String getURL()

The complete URI of the document.

getBody

HTMLElement getBody()

The element that contains the content for the document. In documentswith BODY contents, returns the BODYelement, and in frameset documents, this returns the outermostFRAMESET element.

setBody

void setBody(HTMLElement body)

getImages

HTMLCollection getImages()

A collection of all the IMG elements in a document.The behavior is limited to IMG elements forbackwards compatibility.

getApplets

HTMLCollection getApplets()

A collection of all the OBJECT elements that includeapplets and APPLET (deprecated) elements ina document.

getLinks

HTMLCollection getLinks()

A collection of all AREA elements andanchor (A) elements in a documentwith a value for the href attribute.

getForms

HTMLCollection getForms()

A collection of all the forms of a document.

getAnchors

HTMLCollection getAnchors()

A collection of all the anchor (A) elements in a document with a value for the name attribute.Note. For reasons of backwardscompatibility, the returned set of anchors only contains those anchors created with the name attribute, not those created with the id attribute.

getCookie

java.lang.String getCookie()

The cookies associated with this document. If there are none, thevalue is an empty string. Otherwise, the value is a string: asemicolon-delimited list of "name, value" pairs for all the cookiesassociated with the page. For example, name=value;expires=date.

setCookie

void setCookie(java.lang.String cookie)

open

void open()

Note.This method and the ones following allow a user to add to or replace the structuremodel of a document using strings of unparsed HTML. At the time of writing alternate methods for providing similar functionality for both HTML and XML documents were being considered. The following methodsmay be deprecated at some point in the future in favor of a more general-purpose mechanism.
Open a document stream for writing. If a document exists in the target, this method clears it.

close

void close()

Closes a document stream opened by open()and forces rendering.

write

void write(java.lang.String text)

Write a string of text to a document stream opened byopen(). The text is parsed into the document's structuremodel.

Parameters:

text - The string to be parsed into some structure in the document structuremodel.

writeln

void writeln(java.lang.String text)

Write a string of text followed by a newline character to a document stream opened by open(). The text is parsed into the document's structure model.

Parameters:

text - The string to be parsed into some structure in the document structuremodel.

getElementById

Element getElementById(java.lang.String elementId)

Returns the Element whose id is given by elementId. If no such element exists, returns null. Behavior is not defined if more than one element has this id.

Specified by:

getElementById in interface Document

Parameters:

elementId - The unique id value for an element.

Returns:

The matching element.

getElementsByName

NodeList getElementsByName(java.lang.String elementName)

Returns the (possibly empty) collection of elements whosename value is given by elementName.

Parameters:

elementName - The name attribute value for an element.

Returns:

The matching elements.