/*
 * Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium, (Massachusetts Institute of
 * Technology, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique,
 * Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the
 * W3C's Software Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in
 * the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
 * implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See
 * W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details.
 */
package org.w3c.dom.css_bad;

import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;

/**
 * The <code>CSSValue</code> interface represents a simple or a complex value. A
 * <code>CSSValue</code> object only occurs in a context of a CSS property.
 * <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>.
 * 
 * @since DOM Level 2
 */
public interface CSSValue {

	/**
	 * The value is a custom value.
	 */
	public static final short CSS_CUSTOM = 3;
	// UnitTypes
	/**
	 * The value is inherited and the <code>cssText</code> contains "inherit".
	 */
	public static final short CSS_INHERIT = 0;
	/**
	 * The value is a primitive value and an instance of the
	 * <code>CSSPrimitiveValue</code> interface can be obtained by using
	 * binding-specific casting methods on this instance of the
	 * <code>CSSValue</code> interface.
	 */
	public static final short CSS_PRIMITIVE_VALUE = 1;
	/**
	 * The value is a <code>CSSValue</code> list and an instance of the
	 * <code>CSSValueList</code> interface can be obtained by using
	 * binding-specific casting methods on this instance of the
	 * <code>CSSValue</code> interface.
	 */
	public static final short CSS_VALUE_LIST = 2;

	/**
	 * A string representation of the current value.
	 * 
	 * @exception DOMException
	 *                SYNTAX_ERR: Raised if the specified CSS string value has a
	 *                syntax error (according to the attached property) or is
	 *                unparsable. <br>
	 *                INVALID_MODIFICATION_ERR: Raised if the specified CSS
	 *                string value represents a different type of values than
	 *                the values allowed by the CSS property. <br>
	 *                NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this value is
	 *                readonly.
	 */
	public String getCssText();

	/**
	 * A code defining the type of the value as defined above.
	 */
	public short getCssValueType();

	public void setCssText(String cssText) throws DOMException;

}