Source for org.w3c.dom.css.DocumentCSS

   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.stylesheets.DocumentStyle;
  17: 
  18: /**
  19:  * This interface represents a document with a CSS view.
  20:  * <p> The <code>getOverrideStyle</code> method provides a mechanism through 
  21:  * which a DOM author could effect immediate change to the style of an 
  22:  * element without modifying the explicitly linked style sheets of a 
  23:  * document or the inline style of elements in the style sheets. This style 
  24:  * sheet comes after the author style sheet in the cascade algorithm and is 
  25:  * called override style sheet. The override style sheet takes precedence 
  26:  * over author style sheets. An "!important" declaration still takes 
  27:  * precedence over a normal declaration. Override, author, and user style 
  28:  * sheets all may contain "!important" declarations. User "!important" rules 
  29:  * take precedence over both override and author "!important" rules, and 
  30:  * override "!important" rules take precedence over author "!important" 
  31:  * rules. 
  32:  * <p> The expectation is that an instance of the <code>DocumentCSS</code> 
  33:  * interface can be obtained by using binding-specific casting methods on an 
  34:  * instance of the <code>Document</code> interface. 
  35:  * <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>.
  36:  * @since DOM Level 2
  37:  */
  38: public interface DocumentCSS extends DocumentStyle {
  39:     /**
  40:      *  This method is used to retrieve the override style declaration for a 
  41:      * specified element and a specified pseudo-element. 
  42:      * @param elt  The element whose style is to be modified. This parameter 
  43:      *   cannot be null. 
  44:      * @param pseudoElt  The pseudo-element or <code>null</code> if none. 
  45:      * @return  The override style declaration. 
  46:      */
  47:     public CSSStyleDeclaration getOverrideStyle(Element elt, 
  48:                                                 String pseudoElt);
  49: 
  50: }