Interface HTMLDocument

All Superinterfaces:

Document, Node

public interface HTMLDocument
extends Document

An HTMLDocument is the root of the HTML hierarchy and holds the entire content. Besides providing access to the hierarchy, it also provides some convenience methods for accessing certain sets of information from the document.

The following properties have been deprecated in favor of the corresponding ones for the BODY element: alinkColor background bgColor fgColor linkColor vlinkColor In DOM Level 2, the method getElementById is inherited from the Document interface where it was moved.

See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Specification.

Since:

1.4, DOM Level 2

Field Summary

Fields declared in 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

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
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.
HTMLCollection	getApplets()	A collection of all the OBJECT elements that include applets and APPLET ( deprecated ) elements in a document.
HTMLElement	getBody()	The element that contains the content for the document.
String	getCookie()	The cookies associated with this document.
String	getDomain()	The domain name of the server that served the document, or null if the server cannot be identified by a domain name.
NodeList	getElementsByName(String elementName)	Returns the (possibly empty) collection of elements whose name 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.
HTMLCollection	getLinks()	A collection of all AREA elements and anchor ( A ) elements in a document with a value for the href attribute.
String	getReferrer()	Returns the URI of the page that linked to this page.
String	getTitle()	The title of a document as specified by the TITLE element in the head of the document.
String	getURL()	The complete URI of the document.
void	open()	Note.
void	setBody(HTMLElement body)
void	setCookie(String cookie)
void	setTitle(String title)
void	write(String text)	Write a string of text to a document stream opened by open() .
void	writeln(String text)	Write a string of text followed by a newline character to a document stream opened by open() .

Methods declared in interface org.w3c.dom.Document

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

Methods declared in 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 Details

getTitle

String getTitle()

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

setTitle

void setTitle(String title)

getReferrer

String getReferrer()

Returns the URI of the page that linked to this page. The value is an empty string if the user navigated to the page directly (not through a link, but, for example, via a bookmark).

getDomain

String getDomain()

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

getURL

String getURL()

The complete URI of the document.

getBody

HTMLElement getBody()

The element that contains the content for the document. In documents with BODY contents, returns the BODY element. In frameset documents, this returns the outermost FRAMESET 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 for backwards compatibility.

getApplets

HTMLCollection getApplets()

A collection of all the OBJECT elements that include applets and APPLET ( deprecated ) elements in a document.

getLinks

HTMLCollection getLinks()

A collection of all AREA elements and anchor ( A ) elements in a document with 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 backwards compatibility, the returned set of anchors only contains those anchors created with the name attribute, not those created with the id attribute.

getCookie

String getCookie()

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

setCookie

void setCookie(String cookie)

open

void open()

Note. This method and the ones following allow a user to add to or replace the structure model 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 methods may 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(String text)

Write a string of text 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 structure model.

writeln

void writeln(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 structure model.

getElementsByName

NodeList getElementsByName(String elementName)

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

Parameters:

elementName - The name attribute value for an element.

Returns:

The matching elements.