/*
* 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.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.views.AbstractView;
/**
* This interface represents a CSS view. The <code>getComputedStyle</code>
* method provides a read only access to the computed values of an element.
* <p>
* The expectation is that an instance of the <code>ViewCSS</code> interface can
* be obtained by using binding-specific casting methods on an instance of the
* <code>AbstractView</code> interface.
* <p>
* Since a computed style is related to an <code>Element</code> node, if this
* element is removed from the document, the associated
* <code>CSSStyleDeclaration</code> and <code>CSSValue</code> related to this
* declaration are no longer valid.
* <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 ViewCSS extends AbstractView {
/**
* This method is used to get the computed style as it is defined in .
*
* @param elt
* The element whose style is to be computed. This parameter
* cannot be null.
* @param pseudoElt
* The pseudo-element or <code>null</code> if none.
* @return The computed style. The <code>CSSStyleDeclaration</code> is
* read-only and contains only absolute values.
*/
public CSSStyleDeclaration getComputedStyle(Element elt, String pseudoElt);
}