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/*
* 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;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.stylesheets.DocumentStyle;
/**
* This interface represents a document with a CSS view.
* <p> The <code>getOverrideStyle</code> method provides a mechanism through
* which a DOM author could effect immediate change to the style of an
* element without modifying the explicitly linked style sheets of a
* document or the inline style of elements in the style sheets. This style
* sheet comes after the author style sheet in the cascade algorithm and is
* called override style sheet. The override style sheet takes precedence
* over author style sheets. An "!important" declaration still takes
* precedence over a normal declaration. Override, author, and user style
* sheets all may contain "!important" declarations. User "!important" rules
* take precedence over both override and author "!important" rules, and
* override "!important" rules take precedence over author "!important"
* rules.
* <p> The expectation is that an instance of the <code>DocumentCSS</code>
* interface can be obtained by using binding-specific casting methods on an
* instance of the <code>Document</code> interface.
* <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 DocumentCSS extends DocumentStyle {
/**
* This method is used to retrieve the override style declaration for a
* specified element and a specified pseudo-element.
* @param elt The element whose style is to be modified. This parameter
* cannot be null.
* @param pseudoElt The pseudo-element or <code>null</code> if none.
* @return The override style declaration.
*/
public CSSStyleDeclaration getOverrideStyle(Element elt,
String pseudoElt);
}