Source for org.w3c.dom.css.ViewCSS

   1: /*
   2:  * Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium,
   3:  * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de
   4:  * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
   5:  * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software
   6:  * Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in the
   7:  * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
   8:  * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
   9:  * PURPOSE.
  10:  * See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details.
  11:  */
  12: 
  13: package org.w3c.dom.css;
  14: 
  15: import org.w3c.dom.Element;
  16: import org.w3c.dom.views.AbstractView;
  17: 
  18: /**
  19:  *  This interface represents a CSS view. The <code>getComputedStyle</code> 
  20:  * method provides a read only access to the computed values of an element. 
  21:  * <p> The expectation is that an instance of the <code>ViewCSS</code> 
  22:  * interface can be obtained by using binding-specific casting methods on an 
  23:  * instance of the <code>AbstractView</code> interface. 
  24:  * <p> Since a computed style is related to an <code>Element</code> node, if 
  25:  * this element is removed from the document, the associated 
  26:  * <code>CSSStyleDeclaration</code> and <code>CSSValue</code> related to 
  27:  * this declaration are no longer valid. 
  28:  * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Style-20001113'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Style Specification</a>.
  29:  * @since DOM Level 2
  30:  */
  31: public interface ViewCSS extends AbstractView {
  32:     /**
  33:      *  This method is used to get the computed style as it is defined in [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512'>CSS2</a>]. 
  34:      * @param elt  The element whose style is to be computed. This parameter 
  35:      *   cannot be null. 
  36:      * @param pseudoElt  The pseudo-element or <code>null</code> if none. 
  37:      * @return  The computed style. The <code>CSSStyleDeclaration</code> is 
  38:      *   read-only and contains only absolute values. 
  39:      */
  40:     public CSSStyleDeclaration getComputedStyle(Element elt, 
  41:                                                 String pseudoElt);
  42: 
  43: }