Interface HTMLDocument

All Superinterfaces:
Document, Node
public interface HTMLDocument extends Document
An HTMLDocument is the root of the HTML hierarchy andholds the entire content. Beside providing access to the hierarchy, italso provides some convenience methods for accessing certain sets ofinformation from the document.

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  • Method Details

    • getTitle

      String getTitle()
      The title of a document as specified by the TITLEelement 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 isan empty string if the user navigated to the page directly (notthrough a link, but, for example, via a bookmark).

    • getDomain

      String getDomain()
      The domain name of the server that served the document, or a nullstring 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 documentswith BODY contents, returns the BODYelement, and in frameset documents, this returns the outermostFRAMESET 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 forbackwards compatibility.

    • getApplets

      HTMLCollection getApplets()
      A collection of all the OBJECT elements that includeapplets and APPLET (deprecated) elements ina document.

    • getLinks

      HTMLCollection getLinks()
      A collection of all AREA elements andanchor (A) elements in a documentwith 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 backwardscompatibility, 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, thevalue is an empty string. Otherwise, the value is a string: asemicolon-delimited list of "name, value" pairs for all the cookiesassociated 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 structuremodel 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 methodsmay 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 byopen(). The text is parsed into the document's structuremodel.
      Parameters:
      text - The string to be parsed into some structure in the document structuremodel.

    • 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 structuremodel.

    • getElementById

      Element getElementById(String elementId)
      Returns the Element whose id is given by elementId. If no such element exists, returns null. Behavior is not defined if more than one element has this id.
      Specified by:
      getElementById in interface Document
      Parameters:
      elementId - The unique id value for an element.
      Returns:
      The matching element.

    • getElementsByName

      NodeList getElementsByName(String elementName)
      Returns the (possibly empty) collection of elements whosename value is given by elementName.
      Parameters:
      elementName - The name attribute value for an element.
      Returns:
      The matching elements.