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.
*/
public interface HTMLDocument extends Document {
/**
* The title of a document as specified by the TITLE element
* in the head of the document.
*/
public String getTitle();
public void setTitle(String title);
/**
* 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).
*/
public String getReferrer();
/**
* The domain name of the server that served the document, or
* null if the server cannot be identified by a domain name.
*/
public String getDomain();
/**
* The complete URI of the document.
*/
public String getURL();
/**
* 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.
*/
public HTMLElement getBody();
public void setBody(HTMLElement body);
/**
* A collection of all the IMG elements in a document. The
* behavior is limited to IMG elements for backwards
* compatibility.
*/
public HTMLCollection getImages();
/**
* A collection of all the OBJECT elements that include
* applets and APPLET ( deprecated ) elements in a document.
*/
public HTMLCollection getApplets();
/**
* A collection of all AREA elements and anchor (
* A ) elements in a document with a value for the
* href attribute.
*/
public HTMLCollection getLinks();
/**
* A collection of all the forms of a document.
*/
public HTMLCollection getForms();
/**
* 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.
*/
public HTMLCollection getAnchors();
/**
* 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 .
*/
public String getCookie();
public void setCookie(String cookie);
/**
* 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.
*/
public void open();
/**
* Closes a document stream opened by open() and forces
* rendering.
*/
public void close();
/**
* Write a string of text to a document stream opened by
* open() . The text is parsed into the document's structure
* model.
* @param text The string to be parsed into some structure in the
* document structure model.
*/
public void write(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.
* @param text The string to be parsed into some structure in the
* document structure model.
*/
public void writeln(String text);
/**
* Returns the (possibly empty) collection of elements whose
* name value is given by elementName .
* @param elementName The name attribute value for an
* element.
* @return The matching elements.
*/
public NodeList getElementsByName(String elementName);
}