Creates an empty HTML document

Dom\HTMLDocument::createEmpty

(PHP 8 >= 8.4.0)

Dom\HTMLDocument::createEmpty — Creates an empty HTML document

Description

public static Dom\HTMLDocument::createEmpty(string $encoding = "UTF-8"): Dom\HTMLDocument

Creates an empty HTML document without any elements.

Parameters

encoding
The character encoding of the document, used for serialization when calling the save methods.

Return Values

An empty HTML document.

Examples

Example #1 Dom\HTMLDocument::createEmpty() example

Creates an empty document and serializes it.

<?php
$dom = Dom\HTMLDocument::createEmpty();
var_dump($dom->saveHtml());
?>

The above example will output:

string(0) ""

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