NAME

HTML::DOM::Element::Table - A Perl class for representing 'table' elements in an HTML DOM tree

VERSION

Version 0.058

SYNOPSIS

  use HTML::DOM;
  $doc = HTML::DOM->new;
  $elem = $doc->createElement('table');
  $elem->tHead;
  $elem->tBodies->[0];
  $elem->createTFoot;
  # etc

DESCRIPTION

This class represents 'table' elements in an HTML::DOM tree. It implements the HTMLTableElement DOM interface and inherits from HTML::DOM::Element (q.v.).

METHODS

In addition to those inherited from HTML::DOM::Element and its superclasses, this class implements the following DOM methods:

caption

tHead

tFoot

Each of these returns the table's corresponding element, if it exists, or an empty list otherwise.

rows

Returns a collection of all table row elements, or a list in list context.

tBodies

Returns a collection of all 'tbody' elements, or a list in list context.

align

bgColor

border

cellPadding

cellSpacing

frame

rules

summary

width

These get (optionally set) the corresponding HTML attributes.

createTHead

Returns the table's 'thead' element, creating it if it doesn't exist.

deleteTHead

Deletes the table's 'thead' element.

createTFoot

Returns the table's 'tfoot' element, creating it if it doesn't exist.

deleteTFoot

Does what you would think.

createCaption

Returns the table's 'caption' element, creating it if it doesn't exist.

deleteCaption

Deletes the caption.

insertRow

Insert a new 'tr' element at the index specified by the first argument, and returns that new row.

deleteRow

Deletes the row at the index specified by the first arg.

SEE ALSO

HTML::DOM

HTML::DOM::Element

HTML::DOM::Element::Caption

HTML::DOM::Element::TableColumn

HTML::DOM::Element::TableSection

HTML::DOM::Element::TR

HTML::DOM::Element::TableCell