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HTMLCollection.java API Doc Java SE 5 API 2424 Fri Aug 26 14:58:40 BST 2005 org.w3c.dom.html

HTMLCollection

public interface HTMLCollection

An HTMLCollection is a list of nodes. An individual node may be accessed by either ordinal index or the node'sname or id attributes. Note: Collections in the HTML DOM are assumed to be live meaning that they are automatically updated when the underlying document is changed.

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public int getLength()
This attribute specifies the length or size of the list.
public org.w3c.dom.Node item(int index)
This method retrieves a node specified by ordinal index. Nodes are numbered in tree order (depth-first traversal order).
param
index The index of the node to be fetched. The index origin is 0.
return
The Node at the corresponding position upon success. A value of null is returned if the index is out of range.
public org.w3c.dom.Node namedItem(java.lang.String name)
This method retrieves a Node using a name. 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.
param
name The name of the Node to be fetched.
return
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 .