/* * Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium, * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software * Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in the * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR * PURPOSE. * See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details. */ 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is removed from the document, the associated * CSSStyleDeclaration and CSSValue related to * this declaration are no longer valid.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); }