public interface HTMLDocument extends Document
HTMLDocument is the root of the HTML hierarchy and holds
 the entire content. Besides providing access to the hierarchy, it also
 provides some convenience methods for accessing certain sets of
 information from the document.
  The following properties have been deprecated in favor of the
 corresponding ones for the BODY element: alinkColor background
  bgColor fgColor linkColor vlinkColor In DOM Level 2, the method
 getElementById is inherited from the Document
 interface where it was moved.
 
See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Specification.
ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE| Modifier and Type | Method and Description | 
|---|---|
| void | close()Closes a document stream opened by  open()and forces
 rendering. | 
| HTMLCollection | getAnchors()A collection of all the anchor ( A) elements in a document
  with a value for thenameattribute. | 
| HTMLCollection | getApplets()A collection of all the  OBJECTelements that include
 applets andAPPLET( deprecated ) elements in a document. | 
| HTMLElement | getBody()The element that contains the content for the document. | 
| String | getCookie()The cookies associated with this document. | 
| String | getDomain()The domain name of the server that served the document, or
  nullif the server cannot be identified by a domain name. | 
| NodeList | getElementsByName(String elementName)Returns the (possibly empty) collection of elements whose
  namevalue is given byelementName. | 
| HTMLCollection | getForms()A collection of all the forms of a document. | 
| HTMLCollection | getImages()A collection of all the  IMGelements in a document. | 
| HTMLCollection | getLinks()A collection of all  AREAelements and anchor (A) elements in a document with a value for thehrefattribute. | 
| String | getReferrer()Returns the URI  of the page that linked to this page. | 
| String | getTitle()The title of a document as specified by the  TITLEelement
 in the head of the document. | 
| String | getURL()The complete URI  of the document. | 
| void | open()Note. | 
| void | setBody(HTMLElement body) | 
| void | setCookie(String cookie) | 
| void | setTitle(String title) | 
| void | write(String text)Write a string of text to a document stream opened by
  open(). | 
| void | writeln(String text)Write a string of text followed by a newline character to a document
 stream opened by  open(). | 
adoptNode, createAttribute, createAttributeNS, createCDATASection, createComment, createDocumentFragment, createElement, createElementNS, createEntityReference, createProcessingInstruction, createTextNode, getDoctype, getDocumentElement, getDocumentURI, getDomConfig, getElementById, getElementsByTagName, getElementsByTagNameNS, getImplementation, getInputEncoding, getStrictErrorChecking, getXmlEncoding, getXmlStandalone, getXmlVersion, importNode, normalizeDocument, renameNode, setDocumentURI, setStrictErrorChecking, setXmlStandalone, setXmlVersionappendChild, cloneNode, compareDocumentPosition, getAttributes, getBaseURI, getChildNodes, getFeature, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeName, getNodeType, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, getTextContent, getUserData, hasAttributes, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isDefaultNamespace, isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setNodeValue, setPrefix, setTextContent, setUserDataString getTitle()
TITLE element
 in the head of the document.void setTitle(String title)
String getReferrer()
String getDomain()
null if the server cannot be identified by a domain name.String getURL()
HTMLElement getBody()
BODY contents, returns the BODY
 element. In frameset documents, this returns the outermost
 FRAMESET element.void setBody(HTMLElement body)
HTMLCollection getImages()
IMG elements in a document. The
 behavior is limited to IMG elements for backwards
 compatibility.HTMLCollection getApplets()
OBJECT elements that include
 applets and APPLET ( deprecated ) elements in a document.HTMLCollection getLinks()
AREA elements and anchor (
 A ) elements in a document with a value for the
 href attribute.HTMLCollection getForms()
HTMLCollection getAnchors()
A ) elements in a document
  with a value for the name attribute. Note. For reasons
 of backwards compatibility, the returned set of anchors only contains
 those anchors created with the name  attribute, not those
 created with the id attribute.String getCookie()
name=value;expires=date .void setCookie(String cookie)
void open()
void close()
open() and forces
 rendering.void write(String text)
open() . The text is parsed into the document's structure
 model.text - The string to be parsed into some structure in the
   document structure model.void writeln(String text)
open() . The text is parsed into the
 document's structure model.text - The string to be parsed into some structure in the
   document structure model. Submit a bug or feature
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