TheElement
interface represents an element in an HTML or XML document. Elements may have attributes associated with them; since theElement
interface inherits fromNode
, the genericNode
interface attributeattributes
may be used to retrieve the set of all attributes for an element. There are methods on theElement
interface to retrieve either anAttr
object by name or an attribute value by name. In XML, where an attribute value may contain entity references, anAttr
object should be retrieved to examine the possibly fairly complex sub-tree representing the attribute value. On the other hand, in HTML, where all attributes have simple string values, methods to directly access an attribute value can safely be used as a convenience.In DOM Level 2, the methodnormalize
is inherited from theNode
interface where it was moved.
See also theDocument Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification.
Fields inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node |
ATTRIBUTE_NODE,CDATA_SECTION_NODE,COMMENT_NODE,DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE,DOCUMENT_NODE,DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE,ELEMENT_NODE,ENTITY_NODE,ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE,NOTATION_NODE,PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE,TEXT_NODE |
getAttribute(java.lang.String name) Retrieves an attribute value by name. | |
getAttributeNode(java.lang.String name) Retrieves an attribute node by name. | |
getAttributeNodeNS(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String localName) Retrieves an Attr node by local name and namespace URI. | |
getAttributeNS(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String localName) Retrieves an attribute value by local name and namespace URI. | |
getElementsByTagName(java.lang.String name) Returns a NodeList of all descendantElements with a given tag name, in the order in which they are encountered in a preorder traversal of thisElement tree. | |
getElementsByTagNameNS(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String localName) Returns a NodeList of all the descendantElements with a given local name and namespace URI in the order in which they are encountered in a preorder traversal of thisElement tree. | |
getTagName() The name of the element. | |
hasAttribute(java.lang.String name) Returns true when an attribute with a given name is specified on this element or has a default value,false otherwise. | |
hasAttributeNS(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String localName) Returns true when an attribute with a given local name and namespace URI is specified on this element or has a default value,false otherwise. | |
removeAttribute(java.lang.String name) Removes an attribute by name. | |
removeAttributeNode(Attr oldAttr) Removes the specified attribute node. | |
removeAttributeNS(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String localName) Removes an attribute by local name and namespace URI. | |
setAttribute(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String value) Adds a new attribute. | |
setAttributeNode(Attr newAttr) Adds a new attribute node. | |
setAttributeNodeNS(Attr newAttr) Adds a new attribute. | |
setAttributeNS(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String qualifiedName, java.lang.String value) Adds a new attribute. |
public java.lang.StringgetTagName()
<elementExample > ... </elementExample> ,
tagName
has the value"elementExample"
. Note that this is case-preserving in XML, as are all of the operations of the DOM. The HTML DOM returns thetagName
of an HTML element in the canonical uppercase form, regardless of the case in the source HTML document.public java.lang.StringgetAttribute(java.lang.String name)
name
- The name of the attribute to retrieve.Attr
value as a string, or the empty string if that attribute does not have a specified or default value.public voidsetAttribute(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String value) throwsDOMException
Attr
node plus anyText
andEntityReference
nodes, build the appropriate subtree, and usesetAttributeNode
to assign it as the value of an attribute.setAttributeNS
method.name
- The name of the attribute to create or alter.value
- Value to set in string form.DOMException
- INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an illegal character.public voidremoveAttribute(java.lang.String name) throwsDOMException
removeAttributeNS
method.name
- The name of the attribute to remove.DOMException
- NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.publicAttrgetAttributeNode(java.lang.String name)
getAttributeNodeNS
method.name
- The name (nodeName
) of the attribute to retrieve.Attr
node with the specified name (nodeName
) ornull
if there is no such attribute.publicAttrsetAttributeNode(Attr newAttr) throwsDOMException
nodeName
) is already present in the element, it is replaced by the new one.setAttributeNodeNS
method.newAttr
- TheAttr
node to add to the attribute list.newAttr
attribute replaces an existing attribute, the replacedAttr
node is returned, otherwisenull
is returned.DOMException
- WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised ifnewAttr
was created from a different document than the one that created the element.newAttr
is already an attribute of anotherElement
object. The DOM user must explicitly cloneAttr
nodes to re-use them in other elements.publicAttrremoveAttributeNode(Attr oldAttr) throwsDOMException
Attr
has a default value it is immediately replaced. The replacing attribute has the same namespace URI and local name, as well as the original prefix, when applicable.oldAttr
- TheAttr
node to remove from the attribute list.Attr
node that was removed.DOMException
- NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.oldAttr
is not an attribute of the element.publicNodeListgetElementsByTagName(java.lang.String name)
NodeList
of all descendantElements
with a given tag name, in the order in which they are encountered in a preorder traversal of thisElement
tree.name
- The name of the tag to match on. The special value "*" matches all tags.Element
nodes.public java.lang.StringgetAttributeNS(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String localName)
namespaceURI
- The namespace URI of the attribute to retrieve.localName
- The local name of the attribute to retrieve.Attr
value as a string, or the empty string if that attribute does not have a specified or default value.public voidsetAttributeNS(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String qualifiedName, java.lang.String value) throwsDOMException
qualifiedName
, and its value is changed to be thevalue
parameter. This value is a simple string; it is not parsed as it is being set. So any markup (such as syntax to be recognized as an entity reference) is treated as literal text, and needs to be appropriately escaped by the implementation when it is written out. In order to assign an attribute value that contains entity references, the user must create anAttr
node plus anyText
andEntityReference
nodes, build the appropriate subtree, and usesetAttributeNodeNS
orsetAttributeNode
to assign it as the value of an attribute.namespaceURI
- The namespace URI of the attribute to create or alter.qualifiedName
- The qualified name of the attribute to create or alter.value
- The value to set in string form.DOMException
- INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified qualified name contains an illegal character, per the XML 1.0 specification .qualifiedName
is malformed per the Namespaces in XML specification, if thequalifiedName
has a prefix and thenamespaceURI
isnull
, if thequalifiedName
has a prefix that is "xml" and thenamespaceURI
is different from " http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace", or if thequalifiedName
, or its prefix, is "xmlns" and thenamespaceURI
is different from " http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/"."XML"
feature, since namespaces were defined by XML.public voidremoveAttributeNS(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String localName) throwsDOMException
namespaceURI
- The namespace URI of the attribute to remove.localName
- The local name of the attribute to remove.DOMException
- NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.publicAttrgetAttributeNodeNS(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String localName)
Attr
node by local name and namespace URI.namespaceURI
- The namespace URI of the attribute to retrieve.localName
- The local name of the attribute to retrieve.Attr
node with the specified attribute local name and namespace URI ornull
if there is no such attribute.publicAttrsetAttributeNodeNS(Attr newAttr) throwsDOMException
newAttr
- TheAttr
node to add to the attribute list.newAttr
attribute replaces an existing attribute with the same local name and namespace URI, the replacedAttr
node is returned, otherwisenull
is returned.DOMException
- WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised ifnewAttr
was created from a different document than the one that created the element.newAttr
is already an attribute of anotherElement
object. The DOM user must explicitly cloneAttr
nodes to re-use them in other elements."XML"
feature, since namespaces were defined by XML.publicNodeListgetElementsByTagNameNS(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String localName)
NodeList
of all the descendantElements
with a given local name and namespace URI in the order in which they are encountered in a preorder traversal of thisElement
tree.namespaceURI
- The namespace URI of the elements to match on. The special value "*" matches all namespaces.localName
- The local name of the elements to match on. The special value "*" matches all local names.NodeList
object containing all the matchedElements
.public booleanhasAttribute(java.lang.String name)
true
when an attribute with a given name is specified on this element or has a default value,false
otherwise.name
- The name of the attribute to look for.true
if an attribute with the given name is specified on this element or has a default value,false
otherwise.public booleanhasAttributeNS(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String localName)
true
when an attribute with a given local name and namespace URI is specified on this element or has a default value,false
otherwise.namespaceURI
- The namespace URI of the attribute to look for.localName
- The local name of the attribute to look for.true
if an attribute with the given local name and namespace URI is specified or has a default value on this element,false
otherwise.