Uses of Interface org.w3c.dom.CharacterData (Common DOM API )
Date: 2026-03-16

## Uses of Interface
org.w3c.dom.CharacterData

- Packages that use CharacterData
  Package | Description
  --- | ---
  org.w3c.dom | Provides the interfaces for the Document Object Model (DOM).

- - ### Uses of CharacterData in org.w3c.dom

    Subinterfaces of CharacterData in org.w3c.dom
    Modifier and Type | Interface and Description
    --- | ---
    `interface` | `CDATASection` CDATA sections are used to escape blocks of text containing characters that would otherwise be regarded as markup.
    `interface` | `Comment` This interface inherits from `CharacterData` and represents the content of a comment, i.e., all the characters between the starting ' `<!--`' and ending '`-->`'.
    `interface` | `Text` The `Text` interface inherits from `CharacterData` and represents the textual content (termed character data in XML) of an `Element` or `Attr`.

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