All Superinterfaces:

Document, Node
```
public interface HTMLDocument
extends Document
```
An 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.

Since:

1.4, DOM Level 2

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	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 the `name` attribute.
`HTMLCollection`	`getApplets()`	A collection of all the `OBJECT` elements that include applets and `APPLET` ( 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 `null` if the server cannot be identified by a domain name.
`NodeList`	`getElementsByName(String elementName)`	Returns the (possibly empty) collection of elements whose `name` value is given by `elementName` .
`HTMLCollection`	`getForms()`	A collection of all the forms of a document.
`HTMLCollection`	`getImages()`	A collection of all the `IMG` elements in a document.
`HTMLCollection`	`getLinks()`	A collection of all `AREA` elements and anchor ( `A` ) elements in a document with a value for the `href` attribute.
`String`	`getReferrer()`	Returns the URI of the page that linked to this page.
`String`	`getTitle()`	The title of a document as specified by the `TITLE` element 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()` .

- Method Detail
  - getTitle
```
String getTitle()
```
    The title of a document as specified by the TITLE element in the head of the document.
  - setTitle
```
void setTitle(String title)
```
  - getReferrer
```
String getReferrer()
```
    Returns the URI of the page that linked to this page. The value is an empty string if the user navigated to the page directly (not through a link, but, for example, via a bookmark).
  - getDomain
```
String getDomain()
```
    The domain name of the server that served the document, or null if the server cannot be identified by a domain name.
  - getURL
```
String getURL()
```
    The complete URI of the document.
  - getBody
```
HTMLElement getBody()
```
    The element that contains the content for the document. In documents with BODY contents, returns the BODY element. In frameset documents, this returns the outermost FRAMESET element.
  - setBody
```
void setBody(HTMLElement body)
```
  - getImages
```
HTMLCollection getImages()
```
    A collection of all the IMG elements in a document. The behavior is limited to IMG elements for backwards compatibility.
  - getApplets
```
HTMLCollection getApplets()
```
    A collection of all the OBJECT elements that include applets and APPLET ( deprecated ) elements in a document.
  - getLinks
```
HTMLCollection getLinks()
```
    A collection of all AREA elements and anchor ( A ) elements in a document with a value for the href attribute.
  - getForms
```
HTMLCollection getForms()
```
    A collection of all the forms of a document.
  - getAnchors
```
HTMLCollection getAnchors()
```
    A collection of all the anchor (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.
  - getCookie
```
String getCookie()
```
    The cookies associated with this document. If there are none, the value is an empty string. Otherwise, the value is a string: a semicolon-delimited list of "name, value" pairs for all the cookies associated with the page. For example, name=value;expires=date .
  - setCookie
```
void setCookie(String cookie)
```
  - open
```
void open()
```
    Note. This method and the ones following allow a user to add to or replace the structure model of a document using strings of unparsed HTML. At the time of writing alternate methods for providing similar functionality for both HTML and XML documents were being considered. The following methods may be deprecated at some point in the future in favor of a more general-purpose mechanism.
    Open a document stream for writing. If a document exists in the target, this method clears it.
  - close
```
void close()
```
    Closes a document stream opened by open() and forces rendering.
  - write
```
void write(String text)
```
    Write a string of text to a document stream opened by open() . The text is parsed into the document's structure model.
    
    Parameters:
    
    text - The string to be parsed into some structure in the document structure model.
  - writeln
```
void writeln(String text)
```
    Write a string of text followed by a newline character to a document stream opened by open() . The text is parsed into the document's structure model.
    
    Parameters:
    
    text - The string to be parsed into some structure in the document structure model.
  - getElementsByName
```
NodeList getElementsByName(String elementName)
```
    Returns the (possibly empty) collection of elements whose name value is given by elementName .
    
    Parameters:
    
    elementName - The name attribute value for an element.
    
    Returns:
    
    The matching elements.

Interface HTMLDocument

Field Summary

Fields declared in interface org.w3c.dom.Node

Method Summary

Methods declared in interface org.w3c.dom.Document

Methods declared in interface org.w3c.dom.Node

Method Detail

getTitle

setTitle

getReferrer

getDomain

getURL

getBody

setBody

getImages

getApplets

getLinks

getForms

getAnchors

getCookie

setCookie

open

close

write

writeln

getElementsByName