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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 import org.w3c.dom.views.AbstractView;
16 import org.w3c.dom.Element JavaDoc;
17
18 /**
19  * This interface represents a CSS view. The <code>getComputedStyle</code>
20  * method provides a read only access to the computed values of an element.
21  * <p> The expectation is that an instance of the <code>ViewCSS</code>
22  * interface can be obtained by using binding-specific casting methods on an
23  * instance of the <code>AbstractView</code> interface.
24  * <p> Since a computed style is related to an <code>Element</code> node, if
25  * this element is removed from the document, the associated
26  * <code>CSSStyleDeclaration</code> and <code>CSSValue</code> related to
27  * this declaration are no longer valid.
28  * <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>.
29  * @since DOM Level 2
30  */

31 public interface ViewCSS extends AbstractView {
32     /**
33      * This method is used to get the computed style as it is defined in .
34      * @param elt The element whose style is to be computed. This parameter
35      * cannot be null.
36      * @param pseudoElt The pseudo-element or <code>null</code> if none.
37      * @return The computed style. The <code>CSSStyleDeclaration</code> is
38      * read-only and contains only absolute values.
39      */

40     public CSSStyleDeclaration getComputedStyle(Element JavaDoc elt,
41                                                 String JavaDoc pseudoElt);
42
43 }
44
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