com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html

Class HtmlAnchor

java.lang.Object

com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.DomNode

com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.DomNamespaceNode

com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.DomElement

com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlElement

com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.StyledElement

com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.ClickableElement

com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlAnchor

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Cloneable, Element, Node

public class HtmlAnchor
extends ClickableElement

Wrapper for the HTML element "a".

Version:

$Revision: 4789 $

Author:

Mike Bowler, David K. Taylor, Christian Sell, Ahmed Ashour, Dmitri Zoubkov

See Also:

Serialized Form

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlElement

HtmlElement.ChildElementsIterator

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.DomNode

DomNode.ChildIterator, DomNode.DescendantElementsIterator

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static String	TAG_NAME The HTML tag represented by this element.

Fields inherited from class com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlElement

TAB_INDEX_OUT_OF_BOUNDS

Fields inherited from class com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.DomElement

ATTRIBUTE_NOT_DEFINED, ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_EMPTY

Fields inherited from class com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.DomNode

AS_TEXT_BLANK, AS_TEXT_BLOCK_SEPARATOR, AS_TEXT_NEW_LINE, AS_TEXT_TAB, PROPERTY_ELEMENT, READY_STATE_COMPLETE, READY_STATE_INTERACTIVE, READY_STATE_LOADED, READY_STATE_LOADING, READY_STATE_UNINITIALIZED

Fields inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node

ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected Page	doClickAction(Page defaultPage) This method will be called if there either wasn't an onclick handler, or there was but the result of that handler was true.
protected Page	doClickAction(Page defaultPage, String hrefSuffix) Same as doClickAction(Page), except that it accepts an href suffix, needed when a click is performed on an image map to pass information on the click position.
String	getAccessKeyAttribute() Returns the value of the attribute "accesskey".
String	getCharsetAttribute() Returns the value of the attribute "charset".
String	getCoordsAttribute() Returns the value of the attribute "coords".
String	getHrefAttribute() Returns the value of the attribute "href".
String	getHrefLangAttribute() Returns the value of the attribute "hreflang".
String	getNameAttribute() Returns the value of the attribute "name".
String	getOnBlurAttribute() Returns the value of the attribute "onblur".
String	getOnFocusAttribute() Returns the value of the attribute "onfocus".
String	getRelAttribute() Returns the value of the attribute "rel".
String	getRevAttribute() Returns the value of the attribute "rev".
String	getShapeAttribute() Returns the value of the attribute "shape".
String	getTabIndexAttribute() Returns the value of the attribute "tabindex".
String	getTargetAttribute() Returns the value of the attribute "target".
String	getTypeAttribute() Returns the value of the attribute "type".
Page	openLinkInNewWindow() Open this link in a new window, much as web browsers do when you shift-click a link or use the context menu to open in a new window.

Methods inherited from class com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.StyledElement

getClassAttribute, getIdAttribute, getStyleAttribute, getTitleAttribute

Methods inherited from class com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlElement

addHtmlAttributeChangeListener, appendChildIfNoneExists, blur, checkChildHierarchy, click, click, click, dblClick, dblClick, doType, fireEvent, fireEvent, fireHtmlAttributeAdded, fireHtmlAttributeRemoved, fireHtmlAttributeReplaced, focus, getChildElements, getElementById, getElementsByAttribute, getEnclosingElement, getEnclosingForm, getEnclosingFormOrDie, getEventHandler, getHtmlElementsByTagName, getHtmlElementsByTagNames, getId, getLangAttribute, getNodeName, getOnClickAttribute, getOnDblClickAttribute, getOneHtmlElementByAttribute, getOnKeyDownAttribute, getOnKeyPressAttribute, getOnKeyUpAttribute, getOnMouseDownAttribute, getOnMouseMoveAttribute, getOnMouseOutAttribute, getOnMouseOverAttribute, getOnMouseUpAttribute, getTabIndex, getTextDirectionAttribute, getXmlLangAttribute, hasHtmlElementWithId, isAttributeCaseSensitive, isStateUpdateFirst, isSubmittableByEnter, mouseDown, mouseDown, mouseMove, mouseMove, mouseOut, mouseOut, mouseOver, mouseOver, mouseUp, mouseUp, preventDefault, removeAttribute, removeChild, removeEventHandler, removeHtmlAttributeChangeListener, rightClick, rightClick, setAttributeNS, setEventHandler, setEventHandler, setId, toString, type, type, type, type

Methods inherited from class com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.DomElement

cloneNode, getAttribute, getAttributeNode, getAttributeNodeNS, getAttributeNS, getAttributes, getAttributesMap, getElementsByTagName, getElementsByTagNameNS, getNodeType, getSchemaTypeInfo, getTagName, hasAttribute, hasAttributeNS, hasAttributes, isEmptyXmlTagExpanded, namespaces, printOpeningTagContentAsXml, printXml, removeAttributeNode, removeAttributeNS, setAttribute, setAttributeNode, setAttributeNodeNS, setIdAttribute, setIdAttributeNode, setIdAttributeNS

Methods inherited from class com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.DomNamespaceNode

getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getPrefix, getQualifiedName, setPrefix

Methods inherited from class com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.DomNode

addDomChangeListener, appendChild, asText, asXml, compareDocumentPosition, fireNodeAdded, fireNodeDeleted, getAllHtmlChildElements, getAncestors, getBaseURI, getByXPath, getCanonicalXPath, getChildNodes, getChildren, getEndColumnNumber, getEndLineNumber, getFeature, getFirstByXPath, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getNextSibling, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getPage, getParentNode, getPreviousSibling, getReadyState, getScriptObject, getStartColumnNumber, getStartLineNumber, getTextContent, getUserData, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, insertBefore, isAncestorOf, isBlock, isDefaultNamespace, isDisplayed, isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported, isTrimmedText, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, normalize, notifyIncorrectness, onAddedToPage, onAllChildrenAddedToPage, printChildrenAsXml, remove, removeAllChildren, removeChild, removeDomChangeListener, replace, replaceChild, selectNodes, selectSingleNode, setNextSibling, setNodeValue, setParentNode, setPreviousSibling, setReadyState, setScriptObject, setTextContent, setUserData

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node

appendChild, compareDocumentPosition, getBaseURI, getChildNodes, getFeature, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, getTextContent, getUserData, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isDefaultNamespace, isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setNodeValue, setPrefix, setTextContent, setUserData

Field Detail

TAG_NAME

public static final String TAG_NAME

The HTML tag represented by this element.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

doClickAction

protected Page doClickAction(Page defaultPage,
                 String hrefSuffix)
                      throws IOException

Same as doClickAction(Page), except that it accepts an href suffix, needed when a click is performed on an image map to pass information on the click position.

Parameters:

defaultPage - the default page to return if the action does not load a new page

hrefSuffix - the suffix to add to the anchor's href attribute (for instance coordinates from an image map)

Returns:

the page that is currently loaded after execution of this method

Throws:

IOException - if an IO error occurs

doClickAction

protected Page doClickAction(Page defaultPage)
                      throws IOException

This method will be called if there either wasn't an onclick handler, or there was but the result of that handler was true. This is the default behavior of clicking the element. For this anchor element, the default behavior is to open the HREF page, or execute the HREF if it is a javascript: URL.

Overrides:

doClickAction in class HtmlElement

Parameters:

defaultPage - the default page to return if the action does not load a new page

Returns:

the page that is currently loaded after execution of this method

Throws:

IOException - if an IO error occurs

getCharsetAttribute

public final String getCharsetAttribute()

Returns the value of the attribute "charset". Refer to the HTML 4.01 documentation for details on the use of this attribute.

Returns:

the value of the attribute "charset" or an empty string if that attribute isn't defined

getTypeAttribute

public final String getTypeAttribute()

Returns the value of the attribute "type". Refer to the HTML 4.01 documentation for details on the use of this attribute.

Returns:

the value of the attribute "type" or an empty string if that attribute isn't defined

getNameAttribute

public final String getNameAttribute()

Returns the value of the attribute "name". Refer to the HTML 4.01 documentation for details on the use of this attribute.

Returns:

the value of the attribute "name" or an empty string if that attribute isn't defined

getHrefAttribute

public final String getHrefAttribute()

Returns the value of the attribute "href". Refer to the HTML 4.01 documentation for details on the use of this attribute.

Returns:

the value of the attribute "href" or an empty string if that attribute isn't defined

getHrefLangAttribute

public final String getHrefLangAttribute()

Returns the value of the attribute "hreflang". Refer to the HTML 4.01 documentation for details on the use of this attribute.

Returns:

the value of the attribute "hreflang" or an empty string if that attribute isn't defined

getRelAttribute

public final String getRelAttribute()

Returns the value of the attribute "rel". Refer to the HTML 4.01 documentation for details on the use of this attribute.

Returns:

the value of the attribute "rel" or an empty string if that attribute isn't defined

getRevAttribute

public final String getRevAttribute()

Returns the value of the attribute "rev". Refer to the HTML 4.01 documentation for details on the use of this attribute.

Returns:

the value of the attribute "rev" or an empty string if that attribute isn't defined

getAccessKeyAttribute

public final String getAccessKeyAttribute()

Returns the value of the attribute "accesskey". Refer to the HTML 4.01 documentation for details on the use of this attribute.

Returns:

the value of the attribute "accesskey" or an empty string if that attribute isn't defined

getShapeAttribute

public final String getShapeAttribute()

Returns the value of the attribute "shape". Refer to the HTML 4.01 documentation for details on the use of this attribute.

Returns:

the value of the attribute "shape" or an empty string if that attribute isn't defined

getCoordsAttribute

public final String getCoordsAttribute()

Returns the value of the attribute "coords". Refer to the HTML 4.01 documentation for details on the use of this attribute.

Returns:

the value of the attribute "coords" or an empty string if that attribute isn't defined

getTabIndexAttribute

public final String getTabIndexAttribute()

Returns the value of the attribute "tabindex". Refer to the HTML 4.01 documentation for details on the use of this attribute.

Returns:

the value of the attribute "tabindex" or an empty string if that attribute isn't defined

getOnFocusAttribute

public final String getOnFocusAttribute()

Returns the value of the attribute "onfocus". Refer to the HTML 4.01 documentation for details on the use of this attribute.

Returns:

the value of the attribute "onfocus" or an empty string if that attribute isn't defined

getOnBlurAttribute

public final String getOnBlurAttribute()

Returns the value of the attribute "onblur". Refer to the HTML 4.01 documentation for details on the use of this attribute.

Returns:

the value of the attribute "onblur" or an empty string if that attribute isn't defined

getTargetAttribute

public final String getTargetAttribute()

Returns the value of the attribute "target". Refer to the HTML 4.01 documentation for details on the use of this attribute.

Returns:

the value of the attribute "target" or an empty string if that attribute isn't defined

openLinkInNewWindow

public final Page openLinkInNewWindow()
                               throws MalformedURLException

Open this link in a new window, much as web browsers do when you shift-click a link or use the context menu to open in a new window. It should be noted that even web browsers will sometimes not give the expected result when using this method of following links. Links that have no real href and rely on JavaScript to do their work will fail.

Returns:

the page opened by this link, nested in a new TopLevelWindow

Throws:

MalformedURLException - if the href could not be converted to a valid URL