elemental.dom

Interface Text

All Superinterfaces:

CharacterData, EventTarget, Node

All Known Subinterfaces:

CDATASection

All Known Implementing Classes:

JsCDATASection, JsText

public interface Text
extends CharacterData

In the DOM, the Text interface represents the textual content of an Element or Attr. If an element has no markup within its content, it has a single child implementing Text that contains the element's text. However, if the element contains markup, it is parsed into information items and Text nodes that form its children.

New documents have a single Text node for each block of text. Over time, more Text nodes may be created as the document's content changes. The Node.normalize() method merges adjacent Text objects back into a single node for each block of text.

Text also implements the CharacterData interface (which implements the Node interface).

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface elemental.dom.Node

ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getWholeText() Returns all text of all Text nodes logically adjacent to this node, concatenated in document order.
Text	replaceWholeText(String content) Replaces the text of the current node and all logically adjacent nodes with the specified text.
Text	splitText(int offset) Breaks the node into two nodes at a specified offset.

Methods inherited from interface elemental.dom.CharacterData

appendData, deleteData, getData, getLength, insertData, replaceData, setData, substringData

Methods inherited from interface elemental.dom.Node

addEventListener, addEventListener, appendChild, cloneNode, compareDocumentPosition, contains, dispatchEvent, getAttributes, getBaseURI, getChildNodes, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeName, getNodeType, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentElement, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, getTextContent, hasAttributes, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isDefaultNamespace, isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, normalize, removeChild, removeEventListener, removeEventListener, replaceChild, setNodeValue, setPrefix, setTextContent

Method Detail

getWholeText

String getWholeText()

Returns all text of all Text nodes logically adjacent to this node, concatenated in document order.

replaceWholeText

Text replaceWholeText(String content)

Replaces the text of the current node and all logically adjacent nodes with the specified text.

Note: Do not use this method as it has been removed from the standard and is no longer implemented in recent browsers, like Firefox 10.

splitText

Text splitText(int offset)

Breaks the node into two nodes at a specified offset.