The <bodydiv> element is used to contain informal blocks of information within the body of a topic. The bodydiv element is specifically designed to be a grouping element, without any explicit semantics, other than to organize subsets of content into logical groups that are not intended or should not be contained as a topic. As such, it does not contain an explicit title to avoid enabling the creation of deeply nested content that would otherwise be written as separate topics. Content that requires a title should use a section element or a nested topic.
The bodydiv element may nest itself, which means that it may be used by specializers to create structured information within a body. Another common use case for the bodydiv element is to group a sequence of related elements for reuse, so that another topic may reference the entire set with a single conref attribute.
<topic id="sample" xml:lang="en"> <title>Sample for bodydiv</title> <body> <bodydiv id="div"> <p>This set of information is reusable as a group.</p> <p>Lists of three contain three items.</p> <ul> <li>This is one item.</li> <li>This is another item.</li> <li>This is the third item.</li> </ul> </bodydiv> <p>This concludes my topic.</p> </body> </topic>
univ-atts attribute group (includes select-atts, id-atts, and localization-atts groups) |
A set of related attributes, described in 3.4.1.3 univ-atts attribute group |
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A set of related attributes, described in 3.4.1.2 global-atts attribute group |
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Common attributes described in 3.4.1.9 Other common DITA attributes |