Class HTMLDocument

javax.swing.text.html.HTMLDocument

All Implemented Interfaces:: Serializable, Document, StyledDocument

public class HTMLDocument extends DefaultStyledDocument

A document that models HTML. The purpose of this model is to support both browsing and editing. As a result, the structure described by an HTML document is not exactly replicated by default. The element structure that is modeled by default, is built by the class HTMLDocument.HTMLReader, which implements the HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback protocol that the parser expects. To change the structure one can subclass HTMLReader, and reimplement the method getReader(int) to return the new reader implementation. The documentation for HTMLReader should be consulted for the details of the default structure created. The intent is that the document be non-lossy (although reproducing the HTML format may result in a different format).

The document models only HTML, and makes no attempt to store view attributes in it. The elements are identified by the StyleContext.NameAttribute attribute, which should always have a value of type HTML.Tag that identifies the kind of element. Some of the elements (such as comments) are synthesized. The HTMLFactory uses this attribute to determine what kind of view to build.

This document supports incremental loading. The TokenThreshold property controls how much of the parse is buffered before trying to update the element structure of the document. This property is set by the EditorKit so that subclasses can disable it.

The Base property determines the URL against which relative URLs are resolved. By default, this will be the Document.StreamDescriptionProperty if the value of the property is a URL. If a <BASE> tag is encountered, the base will become the URL specified by that tag. Because the base URL is a property, it can of course be set directly.

The default content storage mechanism for this document is a gap buffer (GapContent). Alternatives can be supplied by using the constructor that takes a Content implementation.

Modifying HTMLDocument

In addition to the methods provided by Document and StyledDocument for mutating an HTMLDocument, HTMLDocument provides a number of convenience methods. The following methods can be used to insert HTML content into an existing document.

setInnerHTML(Element, String)
setOuterHTML(Element, String)
insertBeforeStart(Element, String)
insertAfterStart(Element, String)
insertBeforeEnd(Element, String)
insertAfterEnd(Element, String)

The following examples illustrate using these methods. Each example assumes the HTML document is initialized in the following way:

JEditorPane p = new JEditorPane();
p.setContentType("text/html");
p.setText("..."); // Document text is provided below.
HTMLDocument d = (HTMLDocument) p.getDocument();

With the following HTML content:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>An example HTMLDocument</title>
    <style type="text/css">
      div { background-color: silver; }
      ul { color: blue; }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="BOX">
      <p>Paragraph 1</p>
      <p>Paragraph 2</p>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

All the methods for modifying an HTML document require an Element. Elements can be obtained from an HTML document by using the method getElement(Element e, Object attribute, Object value). It returns the first descendant element that contains the specified attribute with the given value, in depth-first order. For example, d.getElement(d.getDefaultRootElement(), StyleConstants.NameAttribute, HTML.Tag.P) returns the first paragraph element.

A convenient shortcut for locating elements is the method getElement(String); returns an element whose ID attribute matches the specified value. For example, d.getElement("BOX") returns the DIV element.

The getIterator(HTML.Tag t) method can also be used for finding all occurrences of the specified HTML tag in the document.

Inserting elements

Elements can be inserted before or after the existing children of any non-leaf element by using the methods insertAfterStart and insertBeforeEnd. For example, if e is the DIV element, d.insertAfterStart(e, "<ul><li>List Item</li></ul>") inserts the list before the first paragraph, and d.insertBeforeEnd(e, "<ul><li>List Item</li></ul>") inserts the list after the last paragraph. The DIV block becomes the parent of the newly inserted elements.

Sibling elements can be inserted before or after any element by using the methods insertBeforeStart and insertAfterEnd. For example, if e is the DIV element, d.insertBeforeStart(e, "<ul><li>List Item</li></ul>") inserts the list before the DIV element, and d.insertAfterEnd(e, "<ul><li>List Item</li></ul>") inserts the list after the DIV element. The newly inserted elements become siblings of the DIV element.

Replacing elements

Elements and all their descendants can be replaced by using the methods setInnerHTML and setOuterHTML. For example, if e is the DIV element, d.setInnerHTML(e, "<ul><li>List Item</li></ul>") replaces all children paragraphs with the list, and d.setOuterHTML(e, "<ul><li>List Item</li></ul>") replaces the DIV element itself. In latter case the parent of the list is the BODY element.

Summary

The following table shows the example document and the results of various methods described above.

HTML Content of example above
Example	`insertAfterStart`	`insertBeforeEnd`	`insertBeforeStart`	`insertAfterEnd`	`setInnerHTML`	`setOuterHTML`
Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2	List Item Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2	Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 List Item	List Item Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2	Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 List Item	List Item	List Item

Warning: Serialized objects of this class will not be compatible with future Swing releases. The current serialization support is appropriate for short term storage or RMI between applications running the same version of Swing. As of 1.4, support for long term storage of all JavaBeans has been added to the java.beans package. Please see XMLEncoder.

Nested Class Summary

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
`class`	`HTMLDocument.BlockElement`	An element that represents a structural block of HTML.
`class`	`HTMLDocument.HTMLReader`	An HTML reader to load an HTML document with an HTML element structure.
`static class`	`HTMLDocument.Iterator`	An iterator to iterate over a particular type of tag.
`class`	`HTMLDocument.RunElement`	An element that represents a chunk of text that has a set of HTML character level attributes assigned to it.

Nested classes/interfaces declared in class DefaultStyledDocument

DefaultStyledDocument.AttributeUndoableEdit, DefaultStyledDocument.ElementBuffer, DefaultStyledDocument.ElementSpec, DefaultStyledDocument.SectionElement

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
`static class`	`DefaultStyledDocument.AttributeUndoableEdit`	An UndoableEdit used to remember AttributeSet changes to an Element.
`class`	`DefaultStyledDocument.ElementBuffer`	Class to manage changes to the element hierarchy.
`static class`	`DefaultStyledDocument.ElementSpec`	Specification for building elements.
`protected class`	`DefaultStyledDocument.SectionElement`	Default root element for a document... maps out the paragraphs/lines contained.

Nested classes/interfaces declared in class AbstractDocument

AbstractDocument.AbstractElement, AbstractDocument.AttributeContext, AbstractDocument.BranchElement, AbstractDocument.Content, AbstractDocument.DefaultDocumentEvent, AbstractDocument.ElementEdit, AbstractDocument.LeafElement

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
`class`	`AbstractDocument.AbstractElement`	Implements the abstract part of an element.
`static interface`	`AbstractDocument.AttributeContext`	An interface that can be used to allow MutableAttributeSet implementations to use pluggable attribute compression techniques.
`class`	`AbstractDocument.BranchElement`	Implements a composite element that contains other elements.
`static interface`	`AbstractDocument.Content`	Interface to describe a sequence of character content that can be edited.
`class`	`AbstractDocument.DefaultDocumentEvent`	Stores document changes as the document is being modified.
`static class`	`AbstractDocument.ElementEdit`	An implementation of ElementChange that can be added to the document event.
`class`	`AbstractDocument.LeafElement`	Implements an element that directly represents content of some kind.

Field Summary

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
`static final String`	`AdditionalComments`	Document property key value.

Fields declared in class DefaultStyledDocument

buffer, BUFFER_SIZE_DEFAULT

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
`protected DefaultStyledDocument.ElementBuffer`	`buffer`	The element buffer.
`static final int`	`BUFFER_SIZE_DEFAULT`	The default size of the initial content buffer.

Fields declared in class AbstractDocument

BAD_LOCATION, BidiElementName, ContentElementName, ElementNameAttribute, listenerList, ParagraphElementName, SectionElementName

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
`protected static final String`	`BAD_LOCATION`	Error message to indicate a bad location.
`static final String`	`BidiElementName`	Name of elements used to hold a unidirectional run
`static final String`	`ContentElementName`	Name of elements used to represent content
`static final String`	`ElementNameAttribute`	Name of the attribute used to specify element names.
`protected EventListenerList`	`listenerList`	The event listener list for the document.
`static final String`	`ParagraphElementName`	Name of elements used to represent paragraphs
`static final String`	`SectionElementName`	Name of elements used to hold sections (lines/paragraphs).

Fields declared in interface Document

StreamDescriptionProperty, TitleProperty

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
`static final String`	`StreamDescriptionProperty`	The property name for the description of the stream used to initialize the document.
`static final String`	`TitleProperty`	The property name for the title of the document, if there is one.

Constructor Summary

Constructor	Description
`HTMLDocument()`	Constructs an HTML document using the default buffer size and a default `StyleSheet`.
`HTMLDocument(AbstractDocument.Content c, StyleSheet styles)`	Constructs an HTML document with the given content storage implementation and the given style/attribute storage mechanism.
`HTMLDocument(StyleSheet styles)`	Constructs an HTML document with the default content storage implementation and the specified style/attribute storage mechanism.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`protected void`	`create(DefaultStyledDocument.ElementSpec[] data)`	Replaces the contents of the document with the given element specifications.
`protected Element`	`createBranchElement(Element parent, AttributeSet a)`	Creates a document branch element, that can contain other elements.
`protected AbstractDocument.AbstractElement`	`createDefaultRoot()`	Creates the root element to be used to represent the default document structure.
`protected Element`	`createLeafElement(Element parent, AttributeSet a, int p0, int p1)`	Creates a document leaf element that directly represents text (doesn't have any children).
`protected void`	`fireChangedUpdate(DocumentEvent e)`	Notifies all listeners that have registered interest for notification on this event type.
`protected void`	`fireUndoableEditUpdate(UndoableEditEvent e)`	Notifies all listeners that have registered interest for notification on this event type.
`URL`	`getBase()`	Returns the location to resolve relative URLs against.
`Element`	`getElement(String id)`	Returns the element that has the given id `Attribute`.
`Element`	`getElement(Element e, Object attribute, Object value)`	Returns the child element of `e` that contains the attribute, `attribute` with value `value`, or `null` if one isn't found.
`HTMLDocument.Iterator`	`getIterator(HTML.Tag t)`	Fetches an iterator for the specified HTML tag.
`HTMLEditorKit.Parser`	`getParser()`	Returns the parser that is used when inserting HTML into the existing document.
`boolean`	`getPreservesUnknownTags()`	Returns the behavior the parser observes when encountering unknown tags.
`HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback`	`getReader(int pos)`	Fetches the reader for the parser to use when loading the document with HTML.
`HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback`	`getReader(int pos, int popDepth, int pushDepth, HTML.Tag insertTag)`	Returns the reader for the parser to use to load the document with HTML.
`StyleSheet`	`getStyleSheet()`	Fetches the `StyleSheet` with the document-specific display rules (CSS) that were specified in the HTML document itself.
`int`	`getTokenThreshold()`	Gets the number of tokens to buffer before trying to update the documents element structure.
`protected void`	`insert(int offset, DefaultStyledDocument.ElementSpec[] data)`	Inserts new elements in bulk.
`void`	`insertAfterEnd(Element elem, String htmlText)`	Inserts the HTML specified as a string after the end of the given element.
`void`	`insertAfterStart(Element elem, String htmlText)`	Inserts the HTML specified as a string at the start of the element.
`void`	`insertBeforeEnd(Element elem, String htmlText)`	Inserts the HTML specified as a string at the end of the element.
`void`	`insertBeforeStart(Element elem, String htmlText)`	Inserts the HTML specified as a string before the start of the given element.
`protected void`	`insertUpdate(AbstractDocument.DefaultDocumentEvent chng, AttributeSet attr)`	Updates document structure as a result of text insertion.
`void`	`processHTMLFrameHyperlinkEvent(HTMLFrameHyperlinkEvent e)`	Processes `HyperlinkEvents` that are generated by documents in an HTML frame.
`void`	`setBase(URL u)`	Sets the location to resolve relative URLs against.
`void`	`setInnerHTML(Element elem, String htmlText)`	Replaces the children of the given element with the contents specified as an HTML string.
`void`	`setOuterHTML(Element elem, String htmlText)`	Replaces the given element in the parent with the contents specified as an HTML string.
`void`	`setParagraphAttributes(int offset, int length, AttributeSet s, boolean replace)`	Sets attributes for a paragraph.
`void`	`setParser(HTMLEditorKit.Parser parser)`	Sets the parser that is used by the methods that insert html into the existing document, such as `setInnerHTML`, and `setOuterHTML`.
`void`	`setPreservesUnknownTags(boolean preservesTags)`	Determines how unknown tags are handled by the parser.
`void`	`setTokenThreshold(int n)`	Sets the number of tokens to buffer before trying to update the documents element structure.

Methods declared in class DefaultStyledDocument

addDocumentListener, addStyle, getBackground, getCharacterElement, getDefaultRootElement, getFont, getForeground, getLogicalStyle, getParagraphElement, getStyle, getStyleNames, removeDocumentListener, removeElement, removeStyle, removeUpdate, setCharacterAttributes, setLogicalStyle, styleChanged

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`addDocumentListener(DocumentListener listener)`	Adds a document listener for notification of any changes.
`Style`	`addStyle(String nm, Style parent)`	Adds a new style into the logical style hierarchy.
`Color`	`getBackground(AttributeSet attr)`	Gets the background color from an attribute set.
`Element`	`getCharacterElement(int pos)`	Gets a character element based on a position.
`Element`	`getDefaultRootElement()`	Gets the default root element.
`Font`	`getFont(AttributeSet attr)`	Gets the font from an attribute set.
`Color`	`getForeground(AttributeSet attr)`	Gets the foreground color from an attribute set.
`Style`	`getLogicalStyle(int p)`	Fetches the logical style assigned to the paragraph represented by the given position.
`Element`	`getParagraphElement(int pos)`	Gets the paragraph element at the offset `pos`.
`Style`	`getStyle(String nm)`	Fetches a named style previously added.
`Enumeration<?>`	`getStyleNames()`	Fetches the list of style names.
`void`	`removeDocumentListener(DocumentListener listener)`	Removes a document listener.
`void`	`removeElement(Element elem)`	Removes an element from this document.
`void`	`removeStyle(String nm)`	Removes a named style previously added to the document.
`protected void`	`removeUpdate(AbstractDocument.DefaultDocumentEvent chng)`	Updates document structure as a result of text removal.
`void`	`setCharacterAttributes(int offset, int length, AttributeSet s, boolean replace)`	Sets attributes for some part of the document.
`void`	`setLogicalStyle(int pos, Style s)`	Sets the logical style to use for the paragraph at the given position.
`protected void`	`styleChanged(Style style)`	Called when any of this document's styles have changed.

Methods declared in class AbstractDocument

addUndoableEditListener, createPosition, dump, fireInsertUpdate, fireRemoveUpdate, getAsynchronousLoadPriority, getAttributeContext, getBidiRootElement, getContent, getCurrentWriter, getDocumentFilter, getDocumentListeners, getDocumentProperties, getEndPosition, getLength, getListeners, getProperty, getRootElements, getStartPosition, getText, getText, getUndoableEditListeners, insertString, postRemoveUpdate, putProperty, readLock, readUnlock, remove, removeUndoableEditListener, render, replace, setAsynchronousLoadPriority, setDocumentFilter, setDocumentProperties, writeLock, writeUnlock

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`addUndoableEditListener(UndoableEditListener listener)`	Adds an undo listener for notification of any changes.
`Position`	`createPosition(int offs)`	Returns a position that will track change as the document is altered.
`void`	`dump(PrintStream out)`	Gives a diagnostic dump.
`protected void`	`fireInsertUpdate(DocumentEvent e)`	Notifies all listeners that have registered interest for notification on this event type.
`protected void`	`fireRemoveUpdate(DocumentEvent e)`	Notifies all listeners that have registered interest for notification on this event type.
`int`	`getAsynchronousLoadPriority()`	Gets the asynchronous loading priority.
`protected final AbstractDocument.AttributeContext`	`getAttributeContext()`	Fetches the context for managing attributes.
`Element`	`getBidiRootElement()`	Returns the root element of the bidirectional structure for this document.
`protected final AbstractDocument.Content`	`getContent()`	Gets the content for the document.
`protected final Thread`	`getCurrentWriter()`	Fetches the current writing thread if there is one.
`DocumentFilter`	`getDocumentFilter()`	Returns the `DocumentFilter` that is responsible for filtering of insertion/removal.
`DocumentListener[]`	`getDocumentListeners()`	Returns an array of all the document listeners registered on this document.
`Dictionary<Object,Object>`	`getDocumentProperties()`	Supports managing a set of properties.
`final Position`	`getEndPosition()`	Returns a position that represents the end of the document.
`int`	`getLength()`	Returns the length of the data.
`<T extends EventListener> T[]`	`getListeners(Class<T> listenerType)`	Returns an array of all the objects currently registered as `FooListener`s upon this document.
`final Object`	`getProperty(Object key)`	A convenience method for looking up a property value.
`Element[]`	`getRootElements()`	Gets all root elements defined.
`final Position`	`getStartPosition()`	Returns a position that represents the start of the document.
`String`	`getText(int offset, int length)`	Gets a sequence of text from the document.
`void`	`getText(int offset, int length, Segment txt)`	Fetches the text contained within the given portion of the document.
`UndoableEditListener[]`	`getUndoableEditListeners()`	Returns an array of all the undoable edit listeners registered on this document.
`void`	`insertString(int offs, String str, AttributeSet a)`	Inserts some content into the document.
`protected void`	`postRemoveUpdate(AbstractDocument.DefaultDocumentEvent chng)`	Updates any document structure as a result of text removal.
`final void`	`putProperty(Object key, Object value)`	A convenience method for storing up a property value.
`final void`	`readLock()`	Acquires a lock to begin reading some state from the document.
`final void`	`readUnlock()`	Does a read unlock.
`void`	`remove(int offs, int len)`	Removes some content from the document.
`void`	`removeUndoableEditListener(UndoableEditListener listener)`	Removes an undo listener.
`void`	`render(Runnable r)`	This allows the model to be safely rendered in the presence of concurrency, if the model supports being updated asynchronously.
`void`	`replace(int offset, int length, String text, AttributeSet attrs)`	Deletes the region of text from `offset` to `offset + length`, and replaces it with `text`.
`void`	`setAsynchronousLoadPriority(int p)`	Sets the asynchronous loading priority.
`void`	`setDocumentFilter(DocumentFilter filter)`	Sets the `DocumentFilter`.
`void`	`setDocumentProperties(Dictionary<Object,Object> x)`	Replaces the document properties dictionary for this document.
`protected final void`	`writeLock()`	Acquires a lock to begin mutating the document this lock protects.
`protected final void`	`writeUnlock()`	Releases a write lock previously obtained via `writeLock`.

Methods declared in class Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`protected Object`	`clone()`	Creates and returns a copy of this object.
`boolean`	`equals(Object obj)`	Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.
`protected void`	`finalize()`	Deprecated, for removal: This API element is subject to removal in a future version. Finalization is deprecated and subject to removal in a future release.
`final Class<?>`	`getClass()`	Returns the runtime class of this `Object`.
`int`	`hashCode()`	Returns a hash code value for this object.
`final void`	`notify()`	Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on this object's monitor.
`final void`	`notifyAll()`	Wakes up all threads that are waiting on this object's monitor.
`String`	`toString()`	Returns a string representation of the object.
`final void`	`wait()`	Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted.
`final void`	`wait(long timeoutMillis)`	Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted, or until a certain amount of real time has elapsed.
`final void`	`wait(long timeoutMillis, int nanos)`	Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted, or until a certain amount of real time has elapsed.

Field Details

AdditionalComments

public static final String AdditionalComments

Document property key value. The value for the key will be a Vector of Strings that are comments not found in the body.

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Constructor Details

HTMLDocument

public HTMLDocument()

Constructs an HTML document using the default buffer size and a default StyleSheet. This is a convenience method for the constructor HTMLDocument(Content, StyleSheet).

HTMLDocument

public HTMLDocument(StyleSheet styles)

Constructs an HTML document with the default content storage implementation and the specified style/attribute storage mechanism. This is a convenience method for the constructor HTMLDocument(Content, StyleSheet).

Parameters:: styles - the styles

HTMLDocument

public HTMLDocument(AbstractDocument.Content c, StyleSheet styles)

Constructs an HTML document with the given content storage implementation and the given style/attribute storage mechanism.

Parameters:: c - the container for the content; styles - the styles

Method Details

getReader

public HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback getReader(int pos)

Fetches the reader for the parser to use when loading the document with HTML. This is implemented to return an instance of HTMLDocument.HTMLReader. Subclasses can reimplement this method to change how the document gets structured if desired. (For example, to handle custom tags, or structurally represent character style elements.)

Parameters:: pos - the starting position
Returns:: the reader used by the parser to load the document

getReader

public HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback getReader(int pos, int popDepth, int pushDepth, HTML.Tag insertTag)

Returns the reader for the parser to use to load the document with HTML. This is implemented to return an instance of HTMLDocument.HTMLReader. Subclasses can reimplement this method to change how the document gets structured if desired. (For example, to handle custom tags, or structurally represent character style elements.)

This is a convenience method for getReader(int, int, int, HTML.Tag, TRUE).

Parameters:: pos - the starting position; popDepth - the number of ElementSpec.EndTagTypes to generate before inserting; pushDepth - the number of ElementSpec.StartTagTypes with a direction of ElementSpec.JoinNextDirection that should be generated before inserting, but after the end tags have been generated; insertTag - the first tag to start inserting into document
Returns:: the reader used by the parser to load the document

getBase

public URL getBase()

Returns the location to resolve relative URLs against. By default this will be the document's URL if the document was loaded from a URL. If a base tag is found and can be parsed, it will be used as the base location.

Returns:: the base location

setBase

public void setBase(URL u)

Sets the location to resolve relative URLs against. By default this will be the document's URL if the document was loaded from a URL. If a base tag is found and can be parsed, it will be used as the base location.

This also sets the base of the StyleSheet to be u as well as the base of the document.

Parameters:: u - the desired base URL

insert

protected void insert(int offset, DefaultStyledDocument.ElementSpec[] data) throws BadLocationException

Inserts new elements in bulk. This is how elements get created in the document. The parsing determines what structure is needed and creates the specification as a set of tokens that describe the edit while leaving the document free of a write-lock. This method can then be called in bursts by the reader to acquire a write-lock for a shorter duration (i.e. while the document is actually being altered).

Overrides:: insert in class DefaultStyledDocument
Parameters:: offset - the starting offset; data - the element data
Throws:: BadLocationException - if the given position does not represent a valid location in the associated document.

insertUpdate

protected void insertUpdate(AbstractDocument.DefaultDocumentEvent chng, AttributeSet attr)

Updates document structure as a result of text insertion. This will happen within a write lock. This implementation simply parses the inserted content for line breaks and builds up a set of instructions for the element buffer.

Overrides:: insertUpdate in class DefaultStyledDocument
Parameters:: chng - a description of the document change; attr - the attributes

create

protected void create(DefaultStyledDocument.ElementSpec[] data)

Replaces the contents of the document with the given element specifications. This is called before insert if the loading is done in bursts. This is the only method called if loading the document entirely in one burst.

Overrides:: create in class DefaultStyledDocument
Parameters:: data - the new contents of the document

setParagraphAttributes

public void setParagraphAttributes(int offset, int length, AttributeSet s, boolean replace)

Sets attributes for a paragraph.

This method is thread safe, although most Swing methods are not. Please see Concurrency in Swing for more information.

Specified by:: setParagraphAttributes in interface StyledDocument
Overrides:: setParagraphAttributes in class DefaultStyledDocument
Parameters:: offset - the offset into the paragraph (must be at least 0); length - the number of characters affected (must be at least 0); s - the attributes; replace - whether to replace existing attributes, or merge them

getStyleSheet

public StyleSheet getStyleSheet()

Fetches the StyleSheet with the document-specific display rules (CSS) that were specified in the HTML document itself.

Returns:: the StyleSheet

getIterator

public HTMLDocument.Iterator getIterator(HTML.Tag t)

Fetches an iterator for the specified HTML tag. This can be used for things like iterating over the set of anchors contained, or iterating over the input elements.

Parameters:

t - the requested HTML.Tag

Returns:

the Iterator for the given HTML tag

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createLeafElement

protected Element createLeafElement(Element parent, AttributeSet a, int p0, int p1)

Creates a document leaf element that directly represents text (doesn't have any children). This is implemented to return an element of type HTMLDocument.RunElement.

Overrides:: createLeafElement in class AbstractDocument
Parameters:: parent - the parent element; a - the attributes for the element; p0 - the beginning of the range (must be at least 0); p1 - the end of the range (must be at least p0)
Returns:: the new element

createBranchElement

protected Element createBranchElement(Element parent, AttributeSet a)

Creates a document branch element, that can contain other elements. This is implemented to return an element of type HTMLDocument.BlockElement.

Overrides:: createBranchElement in class AbstractDocument
Parameters:: parent - the parent element; a - the attributes
Returns:: the element

createDefaultRoot

protected AbstractDocument.AbstractElement createDefaultRoot()

Creates the root element to be used to represent the default document structure.

Overrides:: createDefaultRoot in class DefaultStyledDocument
Returns:: the element base

setTokenThreshold

public void setTokenThreshold(int n)

Sets the number of tokens to buffer before trying to update the documents element structure.

Parameters:: n - the number of tokens to buffer

getTokenThreshold

public int getTokenThreshold()

Gets the number of tokens to buffer before trying to update the documents element structure. The default value is Integer.MAX_VALUE.

Returns:: the number of tokens to buffer

setPreservesUnknownTags

public void setPreservesUnknownTags(boolean preservesTags)

Determines how unknown tags are handled by the parser. If set to true, unknown tags are put in the model, otherwise they are dropped.

Parameters:

preservesTags - true if unknown tags should be saved in the model, otherwise tags are dropped

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getPreservesUnknownTags

public boolean getPreservesUnknownTags()

Returns the behavior the parser observes when encountering unknown tags.

Returns:

true if unknown tags are to be preserved when parsing

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processHTMLFrameHyperlinkEvent

public void processHTMLFrameHyperlinkEvent(HTMLFrameHyperlinkEvent e)

Processes HyperlinkEvents that are generated by documents in an HTML frame. The HyperlinkEvent type, as the parameter suggests, is HTMLFrameHyperlinkEvent. In addition to the typical information contained in a HyperlinkEvent, this event contains the element that corresponds to the frame in which the click happened (the source element) and the target name. The target name has 4 possible values:

_self
_parent
_top
a named frame

If target is _self, the action is to change the value of the HTML.Attribute.SRC attribute and fires a ChangedUpdate event.

If the target is _parent, then it deletes the parent element, which is a <FRAMESET> element, and inserts a new <FRAME> element, and sets its HTML.Attribute.SRC attribute to have a value equal to the destination URL and fire a RemovedUpdate and InsertUpdate.

If the target is _top, this method does nothing. In the implementation of the view for a frame, namely the FrameView, the processing of _top is handled. Given that _top implies replacing the entire document, it made sense to handle this outside of the document that it will replace.

If the target is a named frame, then the element hierarchy is searched for an element with a name equal to the target, its HTML.Attribute.SRC attribute is updated and a ChangedUpdate event is fired.

Parameters:: e - the event

setParser

public void setParser(HTMLEditorKit.Parser parser)

Sets the parser that is used by the methods that insert html into the existing document, such as setInnerHTML, and setOuterHTML.

HTMLEditorKit.createDefaultDocument will set the parser for you. If you create an HTMLDocument by hand, be sure and set the parser accordingly.

Parameters:: parser - the parser to be used for text insertion
Since:: 1.3

getParser

public HTMLEditorKit.Parser getParser()

Returns the parser that is used when inserting HTML into the existing document.

Returns:: the parser used for text insertion
Since:: 1.3

setInnerHTML

public void setInnerHTML(Element elem, String htmlText) throws BadLocationException, IOException

Replaces the children of the given element with the contents specified as an HTML string.

This will be seen as at least two events, n inserts followed by a remove.

Consider the following structure (the elem parameter is in bold).

    <body>
      |
    <div>
     /  \
   <p>   <p>

Invoking setInnerHTML(elem, "<ul><li>") results in the following structure (new elements are in blue).

    <body>
      |
    <div>
        \
        <ul>
          \
          <li>

Parameter elem must not be a leaf element, otherwise an IllegalArgumentException is thrown. If either elem or htmlText parameter is null, no changes are made to the document.

For this to work correctly, the document must have an HTMLEditorKit.Parser set. This will be the case if the document was created from an HTMLEditorKit via the createDefaultDocument method.

Parameters:: elem - the branch element whose children will be replaced; htmlText - the string to be parsed and assigned to elem
Throws:: IllegalArgumentException - if elem is a leaf; IllegalStateException - if an HTMLEditorKit.Parser has not been defined; BadLocationException - if replacement is impossible because of a structural issue; IOException - if an I/O exception occurs
Since:: 1.3

setOuterHTML

public void setOuterHTML(Element elem, String htmlText) throws BadLocationException, IOException

Replaces the given element in the parent with the contents specified as an HTML string.

This will be seen as at least two events, n inserts followed by a remove.

When replacing a leaf this will attempt to make sure there is a newline present if one is needed. This may result in an additional element being inserted. Consider, if you were to replace a character element that contained a newline with <img> this would create two elements, one for the image, and one for the newline.

If you try to replace the element at length you will most likely end up with two elements, eg setOuterHTML(getCharacterElement (getLength()), "blah") will result in two leaf elements at the end, one representing 'blah', and the other representing the end element.

Consider the following structure (the elem parameter is in bold).

    <body>
      |
    <div>
     /  \
   <p>   <p>

Invoking setOuterHTML(elem, "<ul><li>") results in the following structure (new elements are in blue).

   <body>
     |
    <ul>
      \
      <li>

If either elem or htmlText parameter is null, no changes are made to the document.

For this to work correctly, the document must have an HTMLEditorKit.Parser set. This will be the case if the document was created from an HTMLEditorKit via the createDefaultDocument method.

Parameters:: elem - the element to replace; htmlText - the string to be parsed and inserted in place of elem
Throws:: IllegalStateException - if an HTMLEditorKit.Parser has not been set; BadLocationException - if replacement is impossible because of a structural issue; IOException - if an I/O exception occurs
Since:: 1.3

insertAfterStart

public void insertAfterStart(Element elem, String htmlText) throws BadLocationException, IOException

Inserts the HTML specified as a string at the start of the element.

Consider the following structure (the elem parameter is in bold).

    <body>
      |
    <div>
     /  \
   <p>   <p>

Invoking insertAfterStart(elem, "<ul><li>") results in the following structure (new elements are in blue).

       <body>
         |
       <div>
      /  |  \
   <ul> <p> <p>
    /
 <li>

Unlike the insertBeforeStart method, new elements become children of the specified element, not siblings.

Parameter elem must not be a leaf element, otherwise an IllegalArgumentException is thrown. If either elem or htmlText parameter is null, no changes are made to the document.

For this to work correctly, the document must have an HTMLEditorKit.Parser set. This will be the case if the document was created from an HTMLEditorKit via the createDefaultDocument method.

Parameters:: elem - the branch element to be the root for the new text; htmlText - the string to be parsed and assigned to elem
Throws:: IllegalArgumentException - if elem is a leaf; IllegalStateException - if an HTMLEditorKit.Parser has not been set on the document; BadLocationException - if insertion is impossible because of a structural issue; IOException - if an I/O exception occurs
Since:: 1.3

insertBeforeEnd

public void insertBeforeEnd(Element elem, String htmlText) throws BadLocationException, IOException

Inserts the HTML specified as a string at the end of the element.

If elem's children are leaves, and the character at a elem.getEndOffset() - 1 is a newline, this will insert before the newline so that there isn't text after the newline.

Consider the following structure (the elem parameter is in bold).

    <body>
      |
    <div>
     /  \
   <p>   <p>

Invoking insertBeforeEnd(elem, "<ul><li>") results in the following structure (new elements are in blue).

       <body>
         |
       <div>
      /  |  \
    <p> <p> <ul>
              \
              <li>

Unlike the insertAfterEnd method, new elements become children of the specified element, not siblings.

Parameter elem must not be a leaf element, otherwise an IllegalArgumentException is thrown. If either elem or htmlText parameter is null, no changes are made to the document.

For this to work correctly, the document must have an HTMLEditorKit.Parser set. This will be the case if the document was created from an HTMLEditorKit via the createDefaultDocument method.

Parameters:: elem - the element to be the root for the new text; htmlText - the string to be parsed and assigned to elem
Throws:: IllegalArgumentException - if elem is a leaf; IllegalStateException - if an HTMLEditorKit.Parser has not been set on the document; BadLocationException - if insertion is impossible because of a structural issue; IOException - if an I/O exception occurs
Since:: 1.3

insertBeforeStart

public void insertBeforeStart(Element elem, String htmlText) throws BadLocationException, IOException

Inserts the HTML specified as a string before the start of the given element.

Consider the following structure (the elem parameter is in bold).

    <body>
      |
    <div>
     /  \
   <p>   <p>

Invoking insertBeforeStart(elem, "<ul><li>") results in the following structure (new elements are in blue).

       <body>
        /  \
     <ul> <div>
      /    /  \
    <li> <p>  <p>

Unlike the insertAfterStart method, new elements become siblings of the specified element, not children.

If either elem or htmlText parameter is null, no changes are made to the document.

For this to work correctly, the document must have an HTMLEditorKit.Parser set. This will be the case if the document was created from an HTMLEditorKit via the createDefaultDocument method.

Parameters:: elem - the element the content is inserted before; htmlText - the string to be parsed and inserted before elem
Throws:: IllegalStateException - if an HTMLEditorKit.Parser has not been set on the document; BadLocationException - if insertion is impossible because of a structural issue; IOException - if an I/O exception occurs
Since:: 1.3

insertAfterEnd

public void insertAfterEnd(Element elem, String htmlText) throws BadLocationException, IOException

Inserts the HTML specified as a string after the end of the given element.

Consider the following structure (the elem parameter is in bold).

    <body>
      |
    <div>
     /  \
   <p>   <p>

Invoking insertAfterEnd(elem, "<ul><li>") results in the following structure (new elements are in blue).

       <body>
        /  \
     <div> <ul>
      / \    \
    <p> <p>  <li>

Unlike the insertBeforeEnd method, new elements become siblings of the specified element, not children.

If either elem or htmlText parameter is null, no changes are made to the document.

For this to work correctly, the document must have an HTMLEditorKit.Parser set. This will be the case if the document was created from an HTMLEditorKit via the createDefaultDocument method.

Parameters:: elem - the element the content is inserted after; htmlText - the string to be parsed and inserted after elem
Throws:: IllegalStateException - if an HTMLEditorKit.Parser has not been set on the document; BadLocationException - if insertion is impossible because of a structural issue; IOException - if an I/O exception occurs
Since:: 1.3

getElement

public Element getElement(String id)

Returns the element that has the given id Attribute. If the element can't be found, null is returned. Note that this method works on an Attribute, not a character tag. In the following HTML snippet: <a id="HelloThere"> the attribute is 'id' and the character tag is 'a'. This is a convenience method for getElement(RootElement, HTML.Attribute.id, id). This is not thread-safe.

Parameters:

id - the string representing the desired Attribute

Returns:

the element with the specified Attribute or null if it can't be found, or null if id is null

Since:

1.3

See Also:

getElement

public Element getElement(Element e, Object attribute, Object value)

Returns the child element of e that contains the attribute, attribute with value value, or null if one isn't found. This is not thread-safe.

Parameters:

e - the root element where the search begins

attribute - the desired Attribute

value - the values for the specified Attribute

Returns:

the element with the specified Attribute and the specified value, or null if it can't be found

Since:

1.3

See Also:

fireChangedUpdate

protected void fireChangedUpdate(DocumentEvent e)

Notifies all listeners that have registered interest for notification on this event type. The event instance is lazily created using the parameters passed into the fire method.

Overrides:

fireChangedUpdate in class AbstractDocument

Parameters:

e - the event

See Also:

fireUndoableEditUpdate

protected void fireUndoableEditUpdate(UndoableEditEvent e)

Notifies all listeners that have registered interest for notification on this event type. The event instance is lazily created using the parameters passed into the fire method.

Overrides:

fireUndoableEditUpdate in class AbstractDocument

Parameters:

e - the event

See Also:

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