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Mini-markup text-markup language

Hyper-menus feature in Experior employs the mini-markup/text-markup language to decorate help dialogs.

Mini-markup must be well formed. That means that all tags must be properly closed and all attributes must have values enclosed in double quotes. For example this is how line-break tag would look like: <br/>

Markup Reference

<b> – The B element indicates that text is rendered as bold text.

No attributes are available for this tag.

Example:

<b>Bold Text</b>

<i> – The I element indicates that text is rendered as italic text.

No attributes are available for this tag.

Example:

<i>Italic Text</i>

<u> – The U element indicate that text is rendered as underlined text.

No attributes are available for this tag.

Example:

<u>Underlined Text</u>

<s> – The S element indicates that text is rendered as StrikeOut Text

No attributes are available for this tag.

Example:

<s>StrikeOut Text</s>

or

<strike>StrikeOut Text</strike>

<font> – The font element indicates the size change, font face or text color.

Attributes:

  • size Indicates absolute or relative font size. For example size=”+1″ will increase the size of the text font by one point. size=”-2″ will decrease the size of the text font by two points. size=”12″ will set explicit text font size to 12 points.
  • face Indicates the font name. For example face=”Arial” will set the font to Arial.
  • color Indicates the text color. Named colors from Color class can be set or color using RGB format: #RRGGBB where RR indicates hexadecimal value of Red component, GG indicates hexadecimal value of Green component and BB indicate hexadecimal value of Blue component. For example color=”Red” will set text color to red.

Example:

<font color=”Red” size=”-1″>Red smaller text</font>

<h1> … <h6> Indicates block heading text.

No attributes are available for this tag.

Example:

<h1>Level One Heading</h1>
<h3>Level 3 heading</h3>

<a> Indicates an anchor – a hypertext link.

Attributes:

  • href – string which indicates hypertext reference. Attribute value is available in event arguments of MarkupLinkClick and can be used to provide more information about the link.
  • name – string which indicates name of the link. Attribute value is available in event arguments of MarkupLinkClick and can be used to provide more information about the link.

Example:<a href=”MyLink”>My Link Text</a>

<br/> – Indicates line break.

No attributes are available for this tag.

Example:

First Line<br/>Second Line

<div> – Indicates generic block level container element.

Attributes:

  • align – Indicates the container content alignment. left, right or center are allowed values for this attribute.
  • width – Indicate the container width in pixels.
  • height – Indicate the container height in pixels.
  • bgcolor – Indicate the container background color, for example: bgcolor=”#FF0000″ or bgcolor=”Red”.
  • padding – Indicates the padding around the element in pixels. Format for the value is: left, right, top, bottom. For example: <div padding=”1,1,4,4″”> produces 1 pixel padding on left and right side of container and 4 pixels padding on top and bottom. All values must be specified.
  • valign – Indicates the vertical alignment for the content blocks inside of container. Default value is top. Acceptable values are: top, middle, bottom

Example:

<div align=”center” width=”120″>Block container element content center aligned with width of 120 pixels</div>

<span> – Indicates the in-line block level container element. The tag does not cause the line break. You can use it to create tabular layouts.

Attributes:

  • align – Indicates the container content alignment. left, right or center are allowed values for this attribute.
  • width – Indicate the container width in pixels.
  • padding – Indicates the padding around the element in pixels. Format for the value is: left, right, top, bottom. For example: <span padding=”1,1,4,4″”> produces 1 pixel padding on left and right side of container and 4 pixels padding on top and bottom. All values must be specified.

Example:

<span align=”right” width=”100″>In-line container element content right aligned with width of 100 pixels</span>

<p> – The P element defines a paragraph.

Attributes:

  • align – Indicates the paragraph content alignment. left, right or center are allowed values for this attribute.
  • width – Indicate the paragraph width in pixels.
  • padding – Indicates the padding around the element in pixels. Format for the value is: left, right, top, bottom. For example: <p padding=”1,1,4,4″”> produces 1 pixel padding on left and right side of container and 4 pixels padding on top and bottom. All values must be specified.

Example:

<p align=”right” width=”200″>Paragraph element content right aligned with width of 200 pixels</p>

<expand/> – Indicates the position for the expand sign of the button inside of the markup text. This tag allows you to place the drop-down sign which indicates that button has drop-down anywhere inside of the markup text to reduce the space used by a button.

Attributes:

  • direction – Optional attribute that indicates the direction the expand sign points to. Possible values: left, right, top, bottom, popup

Example:

Page<br/>Borders<expand/>

<img> – The img tag defines an image.

Attributes:

  • src – Specifies the image source resource name or embedded resource name.
  • width – Indicates the fixed image width in pixels. If this attribute is specified height attribute must be specified as well.
  • height – Indicates the fixed image height in pixels. If this attribute is specified width attribute must be specified as well.

Example if image is part of global resources:
<img src=”global::Experior.Catalog.Properties.Resources.Document” />

Example if image is included as embedded resource:
<img src=”Experior.Catalog.Info.png” />

Supported entity characters:

&lt; – less than <
&gt; – greater than >
&nbsp; – hard space
&- ampersand &

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