org.w3c.dom.css.ViewCSS Maven / Gradle / Ivy

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package org.w3c.dom.css;

import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.views.AbstractView;

/**
 *  This interface represents a CSS view. The getComputedStyle 
 * method provides a read only access to the computed values of an element. 
 *  The expectation is that an instance of the ViewCSS 
 * interface can be obtained by using binding-specific casting methods on an 
 * instance of the AbstractView interface. 
 * 
 Since a computed style is related to an Element node, if 
 * this element is removed from the document, the associated 
 * CSSStyleDeclaration and CSSValue related to 
 * this declaration are no longer valid. 
 * See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Style Specification.
 * @since DOM Level 2
 */
public interface ViewCSS extends AbstractView {
    /**
     *  This method is used to get the computed style as it is defined in [CSS2]. 
     * @param elt  The element whose style is to be computed. This parameter 
     *   cannot be null. 
     * @param pseudoElt  The pseudo-element or null if none. 
     * @return  The computed style. The CSSStyleDeclaration is 
     *   read-only and contains only absolute values. 
     */
    public CSSStyleDeclaration getComputedStyle(Element elt, 
                                                String pseudoElt);

}