Lines

The <lines> element may be used to represent dialogs, lists, text fragments, and so forth. The <lines>

element is similar to <pre> in that hard line breaks are preserved, but the font style is not set to monospace, and extra spaces inside the lines are not preserved.


Contents

[edit] Example

On a trip to the beach, don't forget:
<lines>
suntan lotion
sunglasses
a beach towel
</lines>

[edit] Contains

Doctype Content model
ditabase, topic, task, reference, concept (
text data  or ph or codeph or synph or filepath or msgph or userinput or systemoutput or b or u or i or tt or sup or sub or uicontrol or menucascade or term or xref or cite or q or boolean or state or keyword or option or parmname or apiname or cmdname or msgnum or varname or wintitle or tm or draft-comment or required-cleanup or fn or indextermref or indexterm or data or data-about or foreign or unknown)  (any number) 
map, bookmap (
text data  or ph or term or xref or cite or q or boolean or state or keyword or tm or draft-comment or required-cleanup or fn or indextermref or indexterm or data or data-about or foreign or unknown)  (any number) 

[edit] Contained by

Doctype Parents
ditabase desc, p, note, lq, li, itemgroup, dd, fig, stentry, draft-comment, fn, entry, abstract, body, section, example, linkinfo, conbody, prereq, context, info, tutorialinfo, stepxmp, choice, choptionhd, chdeschd, choption, chdesc, stepresult, result, postreq, refsyn, proptypehd, propvaluehd, propdeschd, propdesc, glossdef, pd
topic desc, p, note, lq, li, itemgroup, dd, fig, stentry, draft-comment, fn, entry, abstract, body, section, example, linkinfo, pd
task desc, p, note, lq, li, itemgroup, dd, fig, stentry, draft-comment, fn, entry, abstract, body, section, example, linkinfo, prereq, context, info, tutorialinfo, stepxmp, choice, choptionhd, chdeschd, choption, chdesc, stepresult, result, postreq, pd
concept desc, p, note, lq, li, itemgroup, dd, fig, stentry, draft-comment, fn, entry, abstract, body, section, example, linkinfo, conbody, pd
reference desc, p, note, lq, li, itemgroup, dd, fig, stentry, draft-comment, fn, entry, abstract, body, section, example, linkinfo, refsyn, proptypehd, propvaluehd, propdeschd, propdesc, pd
map, bookmap desc, p, note, lq, li, itemgroup, dd, fig, stentry, draft-comment, fn, entry

[edit] Inheritance:

- topic/lines


[edit] Attributes

Name Description Data Type Default Value Required?
spectitle The specialized title attribute allows architects of specialized

types to define a fixed or default title for a specialized element. Not intended for direct use by authors.

CDATA #IMPLIED No
%display-atts; (scale, frame, expanse) A set of related attributes, described at %display-atts; parameter entity PE not

applicable

Not applicable
%univ-atts; (%select-atts;, %id-atts;, %localization-atts;) A set of related attributes, described at %univ-atts; parameter entity PE not

applicable

Not applicable
%global-atts; (xtrf, xtrc) A set of related attributes, described at %global-atts; parameter entity PE not

applicable

Not applicable
class, outputclass, xml:space Common attributes described in Other common DITA attributes      

TOC: Language Specification 1.1
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