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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);
}