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The DOMCharacterData class

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

Intro

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

Class synopsis

class DOMCharacterData extends DOMNode implements DOMChildNode { }

Properties

data

The contents of the node.

length

The length of the contents.

nextElementSibling

The next sibling element or null.

previousElementSibling

The previous sibling element or null.

Changelog

VersionDescription
8.0.0The nextElementSibling and previousElementSibling properties have been added.
8.0.0DOMCharacterData implements DOMChildNode now.

See Also

  • W3C specification of CharacterData

Domcharacterdata

In this section

DOMCharacterData::after

Adds nodes after the character data

DOMCharacterData::appendData

Append the string to the end of the character data of the node

DOMCharacterData::before

Adds nodes before the character data

DOMCharacterData::deleteData

Remove a range of characters from the character data

DOMCharacterData::insertData

Insert a string at the specified UTF-8 codepoint offset

DOMCharacterData::remove

Removes the character data node

DOMCharacterData::replaceData

Replace a substring within the character data

DOMCharacterData::replaceWith

Replaces the character data with new nodes

DOMCharacterData::substringData

Extracts a range of data from the character data

Source: reference/dom/domcharacterdata.xml · from the official PHP manual (php/doc-en)