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Interface com.sun.java.swing.text.Element

public interface Element

getAttributes()

Fetch the collection of attributes this element contains.

getChild(int)

Fetch the element at the given index.

getDocument()

Fetch the document associated with this element.

getName()

Fetch the name of the element.

getParent()

Fetch the parent element.

getRange()

Get the portion of the document spanned by this element.

isLeaf()

Is this element a leaf element?

numChildren()

The number of child elements contained by this element.

positionToElementIndex(Position)

Get the child element index closest to the given position.

 public abstract Document getDocument()

Fetch the document associated with this element.

 public abstract Element getParent()

Fetch the parent element. If the element is a root level element this returns null.

 public abstract String getName()

Fetch the name of the element. If the element is used to represent some type of structure, this would be the type name.

 public abstract Attributes getAttributes()

Fetch the collection of attributes this element contains.

 public abstract Range getRange()

Get the portion of the document spanned by this element. If this element contains children, the span will be the aggregate of the span of the children.

 public abstract int positionToElementIndex(Position pos)

Get the child element index closest to the given position.

 public abstract int numChildren()

The number of child elements contained by this element. If this element is a leaf, a count of zero is returned.

 public abstract Element getChild(int index)

Fetch the element at the given index.

 public abstract boolean isLeaf()

Is this element a leaf element?

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