Table 11-1 shows the properties you can assign to the full class attribute of an element. The list of elements for which a property is assigned by default is representative, not exhaustive; for the complete list of default property assignments, see §B. Element type default properties.
Properties are grouped as follows in Table 11-1:
Does not start a new paragraph, starts an inline (character) format, unless the element is also assigned property Typo. Default for ph, img, xref, fn, tt. |
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May be block or Inline, always Text; retains all existing whitespace. Default for pre, lines, codeblock. |
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Can have text; true of all Inline and of some block. An empty block element that is not also Text is deleted; otherwise it becomes an empty paragraph. Default for p, lq, and many others. |
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Typographic property only; always Inline, but does not start an inline format; treated like an override instead. Default for b, i, u, sub, sup. |
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Suppressed for output, except for any contained text; normally used for metadata. Default for data, data-about. |
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Can contain both text (#PCDATA) and block (as opposed to inline) elements, resulting in “pernicious mixed content”. Default for li and entry. |
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Does not add to the hierarchy of levels for elements such as headings. Default for sectiondiv, bodydiv, conbodydiv, and refbodydiv. |
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Root element for DITA map or topic. Default for topic, concept, task, reference, glossentry, map, bookmap. |
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Map element containing topic information. Default for topichead, topicref, topicmeta. |
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Sets a variable. Default for many bookmap text metadata elements: author, booknumber, booktitlealt, brand, category, component, copyrholder, copyright, copyryear, featnum, isbn, mainbooktitle, platform, prodname, prognum, publisher, series, source.; see §12. Creating and deploying user variables |
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Element with type attribute, such as note. Default for note. |
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Used for <glossentry> specific elements, <term>, and <abbreviated-form>. |
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Used for cross-referencing. Default for xref., topicref, booklist, among many others. |
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Contains a number or content that may be used in an xref. Default for title, li, fn. |
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Used for keyrefs to abbreviations. Default for abbreviated-form. |
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Short description in topicref or topic; default for shortdesc. |
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Starts a table or contains table-wide information. Default for table, simpletable, parml, dl, colspec, tgroup, thead, tbody. |
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Contains a row. Default for row, sthead, strow, plentry, dlhead, dlentry. |
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Table cell. Default for entry, stentry, pt, pd, dthd, ddhd, dt, dd. |
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Occurs in table body. Default for tbody, strow, dlentry, plentry. |