The body part element

About

The body part element is used to hold the body content, such as sections, paragraphs, tables etc.

The body part is a part element of class body. In a content file and configuration file, the body part is located after the front matter part and before the end matter part.

The body part element in a content file and configuration file in Skribenta cannot be deleted.

What you can do

You can do the following tasks on the body part element:

The tasks you can do depends on your user role.

Working with attributes

You can add metadata to the body part element to distinguish it from other body part elements. You might, for example, want to style the content of a specific body part element differently compared to other body part elements.

To add metadata, you add a value for an XML attribute, such as the class or type attribute.

The available XML attributes in Skribenta are class, type, label, id, condition, xml:lang, data-emoji and data.

Classifying the body part element

You can add a value to the class attribute to specify what purpose an element has. Furthermore, you can, for example, set the class attribute value to spare-part-list for a table to say that the table contains spare part components.

A number of elements in Skribenta has a value for the class attribute when you create them. For example, the wrapper element.

class = note: Makes a note wrapper containing information that is important to highlight.
class = warning: Makes a warning wrapper to inform about dangerous aspects of handling a product.
class = figure: Makes a figure wrapper often containing an image with a title.

Skribenta can be configured to let you select attribute values from a predefined list, which can be specific for a given element.

For instructions, see:

Topic: Classifying content

Typing the body part element

Various values can be added to the type attribute for an element to specify that it belongs to a specific type.

A specific type on, for example, a table element allows to style the table differently in a PDF compared to other tables. For example, setting the attribute type to Big is a common way to allow a table span across side margins in a PDF to make the table bigger.

The type attribute can have one or more values. The type attribute is often used in conjunction to the class attribute to specify different types of element of the same class.

Skribenta can be configured to let you select attribute values from a predefined list, which can be specific for a given element.

For instructions, see:

Topic: Typing content

Labelling the body part element

You can put a label on an element to make the content of the element, for example, context-sensitive (the behavior depends on the style sheet). To label the element, you set a value for the label attribute on the Attributes > Label tab.

Making the body part element unique

It is possible to make an element uniquely identifiable in the content file or configuration file. An element ID is represented by a unique value for the id attribute on the element.

An element ID is unique since several elements in the same content file or configuration file cannot have the same element ID.

To make a link to another target element, the target element must have an element ID.

The first character in the element ID must be a letter or an underscore.

It is possible to let Skribenta generate element IDs automatically on certain elements (maintitle, section, table, figure wrapper and block wrapper), in content files and configuration files.

For instructions, see:

Topic: Setting an element ID to make an element unique

Topic: Enabling and disabling automatic element IDs

Conditionalizing the body part element

It is possible to conditionalize an element, and thereby all the content in the element, by adding a Condition attribute to the element.

By using a variable in the condition, the condition can be evaluated differently depending on the variable value defined in the publication's configuration file. You can then use the same content file in multiple publications, and let the variable value control the published output.

Setting a condition on the include element is not recommended. Instead, set the condition on the included file's maintitle if the condition applies to all places the file is included. If the condition do not apply for all the different places an included file is reused, wrap the include element in an if-wrapper element.

Setting language on the body part element

You can set an explicit language on elements containing content written on another language compared to the language in the rest of the content file.

Content in elements having a set language are ignored when translating. Thus, when publishing translations, the content in elements having a set language is always kept as is.

Select the explicit language for the element on the Attributes > Language tab.

Adding an icon on the body part element

You can add an icon on an element to make it visually stand out in your content file to, for example, locate it easily when editing many elements.

Select an icon for the element on the Attributes > Icons tab.

Setting a user-specific attribute value on the body part element

You can add custom metadata to an element to process it in some specific way. Apart from the standard XML attributes in Skribenta, it is possible to set user-specific attribute values using the data attribute.

For instructions, see:

Topic: Setting user-specific attribute values

Viewing all attribute values set on the body part element

On the body part toolbar, click Attributes > All to display the list of all attribute values on the body part element.

Deleting an attribute value set on the body part element

It is possible to delete an attribute from an element in your file.

For instructions, see:

Topic: Deleting an attribute

Hiding the body part element

It is possible to hide block content, such as complete paragraphs and sections, from appearing in the published publication. Hiding content is useful in cases you need to publish a draft version, and you do not want to show certain content. You can select multiple block elements and hide them.

For instructions, see:

Topic: Hiding and unhiding block content

Cutting the body part element

It is possible to cut content in a file to the clipboard in different ways. It is possible to:

cut content in an element to the clipboard

or
cut one or several elements (including all their content) to the clipboard.

For instructions, see:

Topic: Cutting content

Copying the body part element

It is possible to copy content in the file to the clipboard in different ways. It is possible to:

copy content in an element to the clipboard

or
copy one or several elements (including all their content) to the clipboard.

For instructions, see:

Topic: Copying content

Pasting the body part element

It is possible to paste content from the clipboard to the file.

For instructions, see:

Topic: Pasting content