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Element Type

Radhika Srirangam
posted this on August 19, 2010 11:06


An Element Type is used in the page file creator to further define an Element.  There are 11 Element Types that Janova can recognize.

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Button - A button control is used to display a push button. The push button may be a submit button or a command button. By default, this control is a submit button.

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Checkbox - a graphical user interface element that allows the user to make single or multiple selections from a number of options.

 

Div - a division or a section in an HTML document.

Example -  A section in a document that will be displayed in green:

<div style="color:#00FF00">
  <h3>This is a header</h3>
  <p>This is a paragraph.</p>
</div>

 

Frame -  is used to display more than one HTML document in the same browser window.  Each HTML document is called a frame, and each frame is independent of the others.

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Image - a graphic representation on a web page.

 

Link - a word, group of words, or image that you can click on to jump to a new page or a new section within the current page.  Links are found in nearly all web pages and allow users to click from page to page.

 

Radio - a graphical user interface element that allows the user to make single or multiple selections from a number of options.

Example of a radio button:

Male
Female

 

Select List - a drop down menu that provides the user available options to choose from.

 

Span - is when the text is surrounded in an element users can add styles to the content, or manipulate the content.

 

Table -  a data structure used to organize information into rows and columns.

Apples 44%
Bananas 23%
Oranges 13%
Other 10%

 

Text Field - a data structure that holds alphanumeric data such as name and address.

 
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