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 <h1>CSSOM Values Module</h1>

 <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="w3c-doctype">[LONGSTATUS] [DATE: 3 August 2002]</h2>

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<h2 class="no-num no-toc">Abstract</h2>

<p>This CSSOM Values module defines APIs for accessing and manipulating CSS property
values using object oriented value representations. These APIs are intended to replace
the underimplemented and underutilized <code title>CSSValue</code> and related APIs defined by
<span class=informative data-anolis-ref>DOM2STYLE</span>.</p>


<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="sotd">Status of this Document</h2>

<p><em>This section describes the status of this document at the time of
its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of
current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report
can be found in the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/">W3C technical reports index at http://www.w3.org/TR/.</a></em>

<p>This is the [DATE: 3 August 2002] [LONGSTATUS] of CSSOM. Please send
comments to
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with <samp>[cssom-values]</samp> at the start of the subject line.


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<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="toc">Table of Contents</h2>

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<h2>Introduction</h2>

<p>This CSSOM Values module defines APIs for accessing and manipulating CSS property
values using object oriented value representations.</p>

<h2>Conformance</h2>

<p>All diagrams, examples, and notes in this specification are
non-normative, as are all sections explicitly marked non-normative.
Everything else in this specification is normative.

<p>The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", <!--"SHALL", "SHALL
NOT",--> "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in the normative parts of this document are to be
interpreted as described in RFC2119. For readability, these words do
not appear in all uppercase letters in this specification.
<span data-anolis-ref>RFC2119</span>

<p>Requirements phrased in the imperative as part of algorithms
(such as "strip any leading space characters" or "return false and
terminate these steps") are to be interpreted with the meaning of the
key word ("must", "should", "may", etc) used in introducing the
algorithm.

<p>Conformance requirements phrased as algorithms or specific steps
may be implemented in any manner, so long as the end result is
equivalent. (In particular, the algorithms defined in this
specification are intended to be easy to follow, and not intended to
be performant.)

<p>Unless otherwise stated, string comparisons are done in a
<span data-anolis-spec=dom>case-sensitive</span> manner.

<h3>Dependencies</h3>

<p>This specification relies upon the following underlying specifications:</p>

<dl>

<dt>CSSOM</dt>
<dd><p>A conforming user agent must support the CSS Object
Model. <span data-anolis-ref>CSSOM</span></p>
<p class="issue">Narrow this dependency to specific features of CSSOM.</p>
</dd>

</dl>

<h2>CSS Values</h2>

<h3>The <code title>CSSValue</code> Interface</h3>

<pre class=idl>interface <dfn>CSSValue</dfn> {
  <span class="issue" title>// ...</span>
};</pre>

<h3>The <code title>CSSStyleDeclaration</code> Interface</h3>

<pre class="idl">partial interface <dfn>CSSStyleDeclaration</dfn> {
  readonly attribute <span>CSSStyleDeclarationValue</span> <span title="dom-CSSStyleDeclaration-values">values</span>;
};</pre>

<p class="issue"><dfn title=dom-CSSStyleDeclaration-values><code>values</code></dfn>

<h3>The <code title>CSSStyleDeclarationValue</code> Interface</h3>

<pre class="idl">interface <dfn>CSSStyleDeclarationValue</dfn> {
  // CSS Properties
<!--CSSOM-DECLARATIONVALUEIDL-->
};</pre>

<p class="issue">The rough idea is that this interface exposes the full
list of supported properties as well that each return a
<code>CSSPropertyValue</code> object. That object can implement other
objects depending on the property involved. E.g. for '<code title>width</code>'
the object would implement <code>CSSLengthComponentValue</code> and
<code>CSSPercentageComponentValue</code>.</p>

<h3>The <code title>CSSPropertyValue</code> Interface</h3>

<pre class="idl">interface <dfn>CSSPropertyValue</dfn> {
           attribute DOMString <span title="dom-CSSPropertyValue-cssText">cssText</span>;
};</pre>

<p class="issue"><dfn title=dom-CSSPropertyValue-cssText><code>cssText</code></dfn>

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  "map"
  "list"
  "space-list"
  "component"

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<h3>The <code title>CSSPropertyValueList</code> Interface</h3>

<pre class="idl">[NoInterfaceObject] interface <dfn>CSSPropertyValueList</dfn> {
  readonly attribute <span>CSSValue</span>[] <span title="dom-CSSPropertyValue-list">list</span>;
};</pre>

<p class="issue"><dfn title=dom-CSSPropertyValue-list><code>list</code></dfn>

<p class="issue">Ideally this attribute just returns a mutable array.</p>

<h3>The <code title>CSSMapValue</code> Interface</h3>

<pre class="idl">[NoInterfaceObject] interface <dfn>CSSMapValue</dfn> {
  getter <span>CSSValue</span> (DOMString <var>name</var>);
};</pre>
<!-- see HTML5 DOMStringMap -->

<p class="issue">This seems the simplest we can get away with.</p>

<h3>The <code title>CSSComponentValue</code> Interface</h3>

<pre class="idl">[NoInterfaceObject] interface <dfn>CSSComponentValue</dfn> {
  readonly attribute DOMString <span title="dom-CSSComponentValue-type">type</span>;
           attribute any <span title="dom-CSSComponentValue-value">value</span>;
};</pre>

<p class="issue"><dfn title=dom-CSSComponentValue-type><code>type</code></dfn>
<p class="issue"><dfn title=dom-CSSComponentValue-value><code>value</code></dfn>

<p class="issue">type returns "string", "keyword", "identifier", "color", "em", "ex", "px", "url".</p>

<h4>The <code title>CSSColorComponentValue</code> Interface</h4>

<pre class="idl">[NoInterfaceObject] interface <dfn>CSSColorComponentValue</dfn> {
           attribute short <span title="dom-CSSColorComponentValue-red">red</span>;
           attribute short <span title="dom-CSSColorComponentValue-green">green</span>;
           attribute short <span title="dom-CSSColorComponentValue-blue">blue</span>;
           attribute float <span title="dom-CSSColorComponentValue-alpha">alpha</span>;
};</pre>

<p class="issue"><dfn title=dom-CSSColorComponentValue-red><code>red</code></dfn>
<p class="issue"><dfn title=dom-CSSColorComponentValue-green><code>green</code></dfn>
<p class="issue"><dfn title=dom-CSSColorComponentValue-blue><code>blue</code></dfn>
<p class="issue"><dfn title=dom-CSSColorComponentValue-alpha><code>alpha</code></dfn>

<p class="issue">We can make this more complex later. This will probably move into the CSS Color Level 4.</p>

<h4>The <code title>CSSIdentifierComponentValue</code> Interface</h4>

<pre class="idl">[NoInterfaceObject] interface <dfn>CSSIdentifierComponentValue</dfn> {
           attribute DOMString <span title="dom-CSSStringComponentValue-identifier">identifier</span>;
};</pre>

<p class="issue"><dfn title=dom-CSSStringComponentValue-identifier><code>identifier</code></dfn>

<h4>The <code title>CSSKeywordComponentValue</code> Interface</h4>

<pre class="idl">[NoInterfaceObject] interface <dfn>CSSKeywordComponentValue</dfn> {
           attribute DOMString <span title="dom-CSSStringComponentValue-keyword">keyword</span>;
};</pre>

<p class="issue"><dfn title=dom-CSSStringComponentValue-keyword><code>keyword</code></dfn>

<h4>The <code title>CSSLengthComponentValue</code> Interface</h4>

<pre class="idl">[NoInterfaceObject] interface <dfn>CSSLengthComponentValue</dfn> {
           attribute float <span title="dom-CSSLengthComponentValue-em">em</span>;
           attribute float <span title="dom-CSSLengthComponentValue-ex">ex</span>;
           attribute float <span title="dom-CSSLengthComponentValue-px">px</span>;
           <span class="issue" title>// figure out what to do with absolute lengths</span>
};</pre>

<p class="issue"><dfn title=dom-CSSLengthComponentValue-em><code>em</code></dfn>
<p class="issue"><dfn title=dom-CSSLengthComponentValue-ex><code>ex</code></dfn>
<p class="issue"><dfn title=dom-CSSLengthComponentValue-px><code>px</code></dfn>

<h4>The <code title>CSSPercentageComponentValue</code> Interface</h4>

<pre class="idl">[NoInterfaceObject] interface <dfn>CSSPercentageComponentValue</dfn> {
           attribute float <span title="dom-CSSPercentageComponentValue-percent">percent</span>;
};</pre>

<p class="issue"><dfn title=dom-CSSPercentageComponentValue-percent><code>percent</code></dfn>

<h4>The <code title>CSSStringComponentValue</code> Interface</h4>

<pre class="idl">[NoInterfaceObject] interface <dfn>CSSStringComponentValue</dfn> {
           attribute DOMString <span title="dom-CSSStringComponentValue-string">string</span>;
};</pre>

<p class="issue"><dfn title=dom-CSSStringComponentValue-string><code>string</code></dfn>

<h4>The <code title>CSSURLComponentValue</code> Interface</h4>

<pre class="idl">[NoInterfaceObject] interface <dfn>CSSURLComponentValue</dfn> {
           attribute DOMString? <span title="dom-CSSURLComponentValue-url">url</span>;
};</pre>

<p class="issue"><dfn title=dom-CSSURLComponentValue-url><code>url</code></dfn>


<h2 class=no-num>References</h2>
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<h2 class="no-num">Acknowledgments</h2>

<p>The editors would like to thank

Alexey Feldgendler,
Bj&ouml;rn H&ouml;hrmann,
Brian Kardell,
Christian Krebs,
Daniel Glazman,
David Baron,
<i>fantasai</i>,
Hallvord R. M. Steen,
Ian Hickson,
John Daggett,
Lachlan Hunt,
Morten Stenshorne,
Philip Taylor,
Robert O'Callahan,
Sjoerd Visscher,
<!--Simon Pieters,-->
Sylvain Galineau,
Tarquin Wilton-Jones, and
Zack Weinberg

for contributing to this specification.</p>

<p>Special thanks to Anne van Kesteren who authored the material upon which this work is based.</p>

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