Section Attributes

The following attributes are displayed for section elements:

Choose section

A reference to the publication section that the element is to represent. The attribute editor displays the publication's section structure, from which you can select the required section.

Number of sublevels to include

The selected section may own sub-sections, which may in turn have sub-sections of their own. This option determines how many levels of this subtree are to be included with the section. Note that setting this attribute does not automatically create a multi-level menu in the publication: it creates a multi-level menu object, giving the template developer the opportunity to create multi-level menus if that is what is required.

text

This is actually a sub-element rather than an attribute, and is optional. A section element can have 0 or more text elements, each of which can be assigned a different Language attribute. If you don't specify a text element, then the section title is used by default. If, however, you want to supply alternative text for the menu item, then you can use this element to do so, one element for each language required.

image

This is also actually a sub-element rather than an attribute, and is optional. You can use it to supply the URL of an image for use in the menu link. Whether or not the image is actually used is determined by the template programmer.