/*
 * Copyright (c) 2003-2004 Christopher Lenz and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 
 * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     Christopher Lenz - initial API
 * 
 * $Id: IDeclaration.java,v 1.1 2004-09-02 18:07:11 jsurfer Exp $
 */

package net.sourceforge.phpeclipse.css.core.model;

import net.sourceforge.phpeclipse.core.model.ISourceReference;

/**
 * Represents a single CSS declaration.
 */
public interface IDeclaration extends ISourceReference {

	/**
	 * Returns the rule that contains this declaration.
	 * 
	 * @return the rule containing this declaration, or <code>null</code> if the
	 *         declaration doesn't belong to a specific rule
	 */
	IRule getRule();

	/**
	 * Returns the source reference representing the property.
	 * 
	 * @return the property
	 */
	ISourceReference getProperty();

	/**
	 * Returns the source reference consisting of the value assigned to the
	 * property.
	 * 
	 * @return the value
	 */
	ISourceReference getValue();

	/**
	 * Returns the source reference representing the priority (mostly, that will
	 * be "<code>!important</code>") of the declaration, or <code>null</code>
	 * if no special priority was specified.
	 * 
	 * @return the priority
	 */
	ISourceReference getPriority();

}