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Generated Elements
The Processing Steps
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Elements In Depth.
The Elements source files for these documentation pages are included with the Elements distribution. You will understand this documentation much more quickly after at least a quick glance through the ElementsDocSrc files and a comparison of the source to the resulting html.
As you build a site, adding graphics, changing templates and content, and adding elements at various levels of the site, you will want to check your work. To process an Elements siteSrc (see Glossary), see the Initiating the Process page. The development process is a continuous loop of build the site, check the result, edit the source files, repeat. Generally Elements is fast enough that even for largish sites, the time to process the entire site is not long. Single page processing is on the feature list for future releases. (Tip: set copyAssets (see ElementsSettings) to false to speed processing.)
The ElementsSetting.txt file defines elements required to process any site. It is the prefs file for the Elements application.
- Generated Elements
The Elements application internally generates a few important elements for each page. These auto-generated elements enable sophisticated techniques with elements and scripts.
- The Processing Steps
A detailed walk through the steps of processing an Elements site. Helpful if something doesn't seem to be working.
- Using Scripts
Scripts in an Elements site can reduce the amount of hand coding on a site and do marvelous tasks to make static page generation truly dynamic.
- Tips & Bugs
Tips, Bugs, and Annoyances. Good info to keep in the back of your developer mind.
- Special Elements
There are a very few elements whose names are "magic" and which are handled in unique ways.
- Internal Tools
A few of Elements internal methods are useful to pages. They are described here.
- displayInfo() Script
Want to know the values of all the elementsfor a page? May help in debugging a site.
