## org.w3c.dom.css
Interface CSSCharsetRule

All Superinterfaces:
  CSSRule

public interface CSSCharsetRule
extends CSSRule

The `CSSCharsetRule` interface represents a @charset rule in a CSS style sheet. The value of the `encoding` attribute does not affect the encoding of text data in the DOM objects; this encoding is always UTF-16. After a stylesheet is loaded, the value of the `encoding` attribute is the value found in the `@charset` rule. If there was no `@charset` in the original document, then no `CSSCharsetRule` is created. The value of the `encoding` attribute may also be used as a hint for the encoding used on serialization of the style sheet.

The value of the @charset rule (and therefore of the `CSSCharsetRule`) may not correspond to the encoding the document actually came in; character encoding information e.g. in an HTTP header, has priority (see CSS document representation) but this is not reflected in the `CSSCharsetRule`.

See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Style Specification.

Since:
  DOM Level 2

Fields inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.css.CSSRule
`CHARSET_RULE, FONT_FACE_RULE, IMPORT_RULE, MEDIA_RULE, PAGE_RULE, STYLE_RULE, UNKNOWN_RULE`

Method Summary
`java.lang.String` `getEncoding()` The encoding information used in this `@charset` rule.
`void` `setEncoding(java.lang.String encoding)` The encoding information used in this `@charset` rule.

Methods inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.css.CSSRule
`getCssText, getParentRule, getParentStyleSheet, getType, setCssText`

Method Detail

### getEncoding

    public java.lang.String getEncoding()

  The encoding information used in this `@charset` rule.
  Throws:
    `DOMException` - SYNTAX_ERR: Raised if the specified encoding value has a syntax error and is unparsable.
    NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this encoding rule is readonly.

### setEncoding

    public void setEncoding(java.lang.String encoding)
                     throws DOMException

  The encoding information used in this `@charset` rule.
  Throws:
    `DOMException` - SYNTAX_ERR: Raised if the specified encoding value has a syntax error and is unparsable.
    NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this encoding rule is readonly.

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