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Dynamic Element Specifications



Introduction

Dynamic elements serve as the basic building blocks of WebObjects applications by linking an application's scripted or compiled behavior to an HTML page. The linkage can be two-way, in that a dynamic element:

With WebObjects, most pages sent to the user's browser are composed of HTML from a static template combined with HTML that's dynamically generated by dynamic elements embedded (directly, or in the case of reusable components, indirectly) in that template.

Here are the dynamic elements defined in the WebObjects Framework:

See the WebObjects Developer's Guide for a more complete introduction to Dynamic Elements.


How to Use These Specifications

Each dynamic element specification that follows is divided into three sections: a synopsis, a description, and a set of bindings. The synopsis is designed to give you ready reference to the element's attributes, showing which ones are mandatory and which ones optional. The description explains the purpose of the element. Finally, the bindings describe in detail each of the dynamic element's attributes.

The element synopses use several conventions that you should be aware of, for example:

WOVBScript { scriptFile=aPath | scriptString=aString | scriptSource=aURL; [hideInComment=aBoolean;] ... };

The otherTagString Attribute

All dynamic elements include an optional attribute, otherTagString, Use this attribute to have the bound string included directly in an element's HTML tag. Some HTML elements contain parameters that are not key-value pairs. If you wish to include one of these parameters in your element, you can send it using this attribute.


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