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Interface org.w3c.dom.html.HTMLDocument

public interface HTMLDocument
extends Document
An HTMLDocument is the root of the HTML hierarchy and holds the entire content. Beside 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:


Method Index

 o close()
Closes a document stream opened by open() and forces rendering.
 o getAnchors()
A collection of all the anchor (A) elements in a document with a value for the name attribute.Note.
 o getApplets()
A collection of all the OBJECT elements that include applets and APPLET (deprecated) elements in a document.
 o getBody()
The element that contains the content for the document.
 o getCookie()
The cookies associated with this document.
 o getDomain()
The domain name of the server that served the document, or a null string if the server cannot be identified by a domain name.
 o getElementById(String)
Returns the Element whose id is given by elementId.
 o getElementsByName(String)
Returns the (possibly empty) collection of elements whose name value is given by elementName.
 o getForms()
A collection of all the forms of a document.
 o getImages()
A collection of all the IMG elements in a document.
 o getLinks()
A collection of all AREA elements and anchor (A) elements in a document with a value for the href attribute.
 o getReferrer()
Returns the URI of the page that linked to this page.
 o getTitle()
The title of a document as specified by the TITLE element in the head of the document.
 o getURL()
The complete URI of the document.
 o open()
Note.
 o setBody(HTMLElement)
 o setCookie(String)
 o setTitle(String)
 o write(String)
Write a string of text to a document stream opened by open().
 o writeln(String)
Write a string of text followed by a newline character to a document stream opened by open().

Methods

 o getTitle
 public abstract String getTitle()
The title of a document as specified by the TITLE element in the head of the document.

 o setTitle
 public abstract void setTitle(String title)
 o getReferrer
 public abstract 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).

 o getDomain
 public abstract String getDomain()
The domain name of the server that served the document, or a null string if the server cannot be identified by a domain name.

 o getURL
 public abstract String getURL()
The complete URI of the document.

 o getBody
 public abstract HTMLElement getBody()
The element that contains the content for the document. In documents with BODY contents, returns the BODY element, and in frameset documents, this returns the outermost FRAMESET element.

 o setBody
 public abstract void setBody(HTMLElement body)
 o getImages
 public abstract HTMLCollection getImages()
A collection of all the IMG elements in a document. The behavior is limited to IMG elements for backwards compatibility.

 o getApplets
 public abstract HTMLCollection getApplets()
A collection of all the OBJECT elements that include applets and APPLET (deprecated) elements in a document.

 o getLinks
 public abstract HTMLCollection getLinks()
A collection of all AREA elements and anchor (A) elements in a document with a value for the href attribute.

 o getForms
 public abstract HTMLCollection getForms()
A collection of all the forms of a document.

 o getAnchors
 public abstract 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.

 o getCookie
 public abstract 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.

 o setCookie
 public abstract void setCookie(String cookie)
 o open
 public abstract 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.

 o close
 public abstract void close()
Closes a document stream opened by open() and forces rendering.

 o write
 public abstract 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.
 o writeln
 public abstract 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.
 o getElementById
 public abstract Element getElementById(String elementId)
Returns the Element whose id is given by elementId. If no such element exists, returns void. Behavior is not defined if more than one element has this id.

Parameters:
elementId - The unique id value for an element.
 o getElementsByName
 public abstract 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.

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