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 /** 16 * The <code>CSSValueList</code> interface provides the abstraction of an 17 * ordered collection of CSS values. 18 * <p> Some properties allow an empty list into their syntax. In that case, 19 * these properties take the <code>none</code> identifier. So, an empty list 20 * means that the property has the value <code>none</code>. 21 * <p> The items in the <code>CSSValueList</code> are accessible via an 22 * integral index, starting from 0. 23 * <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>. 24 * @since DOM Level 2 25 */ 26 public interface CSSValueList extends CSSValue { 27 /** 28 * The number of <code>CSSValues</code> in the list. The range of valid 29 * values of the indices is <code>0</code> to <code>length-1</code> 30 * inclusive. 31 */ 32 public int getLength(); 33 34 /** 35 * Used to retrieve a <code>CSSValue</code> by ordinal index. The order in 36 * this collection represents the order of the values in the CSS style 37 * property. If index is greater than or equal to the number of values 38 * in the list, this returns <code>null</code>. 39 * @param indexIndex into the collection. 40 * @return The <code>CSSValue</code> at the <code>index</code> position 41 * in the <code>CSSValueList</code>, or <code>null</code> if that is 42 * not a valid index. 43 */ 44 public CSSValue item(int index); 45 46 } 47