NAME

HTML::DOM::Text - A Perl class for representing text nodes in an HTML DOM tree

SYNOPSIS

  use HTML::DOM;
  $doc = HTML::DOM->new;
  $text_node = $doc->createTextNode('the text goes here, I think');

  $text_node->data;              # 'the text goes here, I think'
  $text_node->length;            #  27
  $text_node->substringData(22); # 'think' 
  # etc.

DESCRIPTION

This class implements the Text interface for HTML::DOM. It inherits from HTML::DOM::CharacterData, which inherits from HTML::DOM::Node.

METHODS

HTML::DOM::Text's Own Methods

$text->splitText($offset)

Splits the node into two separate sibling text nodes at the given offset.

$text->splitText16($offset)

This is just like splitText except that the offset is given in UTF-16, rather than Unicode.

$text->nodeName

This returns '#text'.

$text->nodeType

This returns the constant HTML::DOM::Node::TEXT_NODE.

Inherited Methods

These are inherited from HTML::DOM::CharacterData:

data

length

length16

substringData

substringData16

appendData

insertData

insertData16

deleteData

deleteData16

replaceData

replaceData16

nodeValue

These are inherited from HTML::DOM::Node:

nodeValue

parentNode

childNodes

firstChild

lastChild

previousSibling

nextSibling

attributes

ownerDocument

insertBefore

replaceChild

removeChild

appendChild

hasChildNodes

cloneNode

SEE ALSO

HTML::DOM

HTML::DOM::CharacterData

HTML::DOM::Node