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    The Dom\Text class

    (PHP 8 >= 8.4.0)

    Introduction

    The Dom\Text class inherits from Dom\CharacterData and represents a text node.

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

    Class synopsis

    class Dom\Text extends Dom\CharacterData {
    /* Inherited constants */
    public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED = 0x1;
    public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING = 0x2;
    public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING = 0x4;
    public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS = 0x8;
    public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY = 0x10;
    public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC = 0x20;
    /* Properties */
    public readonly string $wholeText;
    /* Inherited properties */
    public readonly ?Dom\Element $previousElementSibling;
    public readonly ?Dom\Element $nextElementSibling;
    public string $data;
    public readonly int $length;
    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;
    public ?string $nodeValue;
    public ?string $textContent;
    /* Methods */
    public splitText(int $offset): Dom\Text
    /* Inherited methods */
    public Dom\CharacterData::after(Dom\Node|string ...$nodes): void
    public Dom\CharacterData::appendData(string $data): void
    public Dom\CharacterData::before(Dom\Node|string ...$nodes): void
    public Dom\CharacterData::deleteData(int $offset, int $count): void
    public Dom\CharacterData::insertData(int $offset, string $data): void
    public Dom\CharacterData::remove(): void
    public Dom\CharacterData::replaceData(int $offset, int $count, string $data): void
    public Dom\CharacterData::replaceWith(Dom\Node|string ...$nodes): void
    public Dom\CharacterData::substringData(int $offset, int $count): string
    /* Not documented yet */
    }

    Properties

    wholeText

    Holds all the text of logically-adjacent (not separated by Element, Comment or Processing Instruction) Text nodes.

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