The Dom\CharacterData class

(PHP 8 >= 8.4.0)

Introduction

Represents nodes with character data. No nodes directly correspond to this class, but other nodes do inherit from it.

This is the modern, spec-compliant equivalent of DOMCharacterData.

Class synopsis

class Dom\CharacterData extends Dom\Node implements Dom\ChildNode {
/* Inherited constants */
/* Properties */
public string $data;
public readonly int $length;
/* Inherited properties */
public readonly int $nodeType;
public readonly string $nodeName;
public readonly string $baseURI;
public readonly bool $isConnected;
public readonly ?Dom\Document $ownerDocument;
public readonly ?Dom\Node $parentNode;
public readonly ?Dom\Element $parentElement;
public readonly Dom\NodeList $childNodes;
public readonly ?Dom\Node $firstChild;
public readonly ?Dom\Node $lastChild;
public readonly ?Dom\Node $previousSibling;
public readonly ?Dom\Node $nextSibling;
/* Methods */
public after(Dom\Node|string ...$nodes): void
public appendData(string $data): void
public before(Dom\Node|string ...$nodes): void
public deleteData(int $offset, int $count): void
public insertData(int $offset, string $data): void
public remove(): void
public replaceData(int $offset, int $count, string $data): void
public replaceWith(Dom\Node|string ...$nodes): void
public substringData(int $offset, int $count): string
/* Inherited methods */
/* Not documented yet */
}

Properties

previousElementSibling

The previous sibling element or null.

nextElementSibling

The next sibling element or null.

data

The contents of the node.

length

The length of the contents.

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