org.w3c.dom.html2
Interface HTMLCollection
public interface HTMLCollection
An
HTMLCollection
is a list of nodes. An individual node may
be accessed by either ordinal index or the node's
name
or
id
attributes. Collections in the HTML DOM are assumed to be
live meaning that they are automatically updated when the underlying
document is changed.
See also the
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification.
int | getLength() - This attribute specifies the length or size of the list.
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Node | item(int index) - This method retrieves a node specified by ordinal index.
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Node | namedItem(String name) - This method retrieves a
Node using a name.
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getLength
public int getLength()
This attribute specifies the length or size of the list.
item
public Node item(int index)
This method retrieves a node specified by ordinal index. Nodes are
numbered in tree order (depth-first traversal order).
index
- The index of the node to be fetched. The index origin is
0
.
- The
Node
at the corresponding position upon
success. A value of null
is returned if the index is
out of range.
namedItem
public Node namedItem(String name)
This method retrieves a
Node
using a name. With [
HTML 4.01]
documents, it first searches for a
Node
with a matching
id
attribute. If it doesn't find one, it then searches
for a
Node
with a matching
name
attribute,
but only on those elements that are allowed a name attribute. With [
XHTML 1.0]
documents, this method only searches for
Nodes
with a
matching
id
attribute. This method is case insensitive
in HTML documents and case sensitive in XHTML documents.
name
- The name of the Node
to be fetched.
- The
Node
with a name
or
id
attribute whose value corresponds to the specified
string. Upon failure (e.g., no node with this name exists), returns
null
.