<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ascii"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
          "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
  <title>web2py.gluon.html.DIV</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="epydoc.css" type="text/css" />
  <script type="text/javascript" src="epydoc.js"></script>
</head>

<body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="blue" vlink="#204080"
      alink="#204080">
<!-- ==================== NAVIGATION BAR ==================== -->
<table class="navbar" border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0"
       bgcolor="#a0c0ff" cellspacing="0">
  <tr valign="middle">
  <!-- Home link -->
      <th>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
        href="web2py.gluon-module.html">Home</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>

  <!-- Tree link -->
      <th>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
        href="module-tree.html">Trees</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>

  <!-- Index link -->
      <th>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
        href="identifier-index.html">Indices</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>

  <!-- Help link -->
      <th>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
        href="help.html">Help</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>

  <!-- Project homepage -->
      <th class="navbar" align="right" width="100%">
        <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
          <tr><th class="navbar" align="center"
            ><a class="navbar" target="_top" href="http://www.web2py.com">web2py Web Framework</a></th>
          </tr></table></th>
  </tr>
</table>
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr valign="top">
    <td width="100%">
      <span class="breadcrumbs">
        Package&nbsp;web2py ::
        <a href="web2py.gluon-module.html">Package&nbsp;gluon</a> ::
        <a href="web2py.gluon.html-module.html">Module&nbsp;html</a> ::
        Class&nbsp;DIV
      </span>
    </td>
    <td>
      <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <!-- hide/show private -->
        <tr><td align="right"><span class="options">[<a href="javascript:void(0);" class="privatelink"
    onclick="toggle_private();">hide&nbsp;private</a>]</span></td></tr>
        <tr><td align="right"><span class="options"
            >[<a href="frames.html" target="_top">frames</a
            >]&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="web2py.gluon.html.DIV-class.html"
            target="_top">no&nbsp;frames</a>]</span></td></tr>
      </table>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<!-- ==================== CLASS DESCRIPTION ==================== -->
<h1 class="epydoc">Class DIV</h1><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV">source&nbsp;code</a></span><br /><br />
<pre class="base-tree">
  object --+    
           |    
<a href="web2py.gluon.html.XmlComponent-class.html">XmlComponent</a> --+
               |
              <strong class="uidshort">DIV</strong>
</pre>

<dl><dt>Known Subclasses:</dt>
<dd>
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.A-class.html">A</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.B-class.html">B</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.BEAUTIFY-class.html">BEAUTIFY</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.BODY-class.html">BODY</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.BR-class.html">BR</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.CAT-class.html">CAT</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.CENTER-class.html">CENTER</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.CODE-class.html">CODE</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.EM-class.html">EM</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.EMBED-class.html">EMBED</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.FIELDSET-class.html">FIELDSET</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.FORM-class.html">FORM</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.H1-class.html">H1</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.H2-class.html">H2</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.H3-class.html">H3</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.H4-class.html">H4</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.H5-class.html">H5</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.H6-class.html">H6</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.HEAD-class.html">HEAD</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.HR-class.html">HR</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.HTML-class.html">HTML</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.I-class.html">I</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.IFRAME-class.html">IFRAME</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.IMG-class.html">IMG</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.INPUT-class.html">INPUT</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.LABEL-class.html">LABEL</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.LEGEND-class.html">LEGEND</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.LI-class.html">LI</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.LINK-class.html">LINK</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.MENU-class.html">MENU</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.META-class.html">META</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.OBJECT-class.html">OBJECT</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.UL-class.html">UL</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.OPTGROUP-class.html">OPTGROUP</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.OPTION-class.html">OPTION</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.P-class.html">P</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.PRE-class.html">PRE</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.SCRIPT-class.html">SCRIPT</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.SPAN-class.html">SPAN</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.TABLE-class.html">TABLE</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.STYLE-class.html">STYLE</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.TBODY-class.html">TBODY</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.TD-class.html">TD</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.TFOOT-class.html">TFOOT</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.TH-class.html">TH</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.THEAD-class.html">THEAD</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.TITLE-class.html">TITLE</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.TR-class.html">TR</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.TT-class.html">TT</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.XHTML-class.html">XHTML</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.BUTTON-class.html">BUTTON</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.COL-class.html">COL</a>,
    <a href="web2py.gluon.html.COLGROUP-class.html">COLGROUP</a>
</dd></dl>

<hr />
<p>HTML helper, for easy generating and manipulating a DOM structure. 
  Little or no validation is done.</p>
  <p>Behaves like a dictionary regarding updating of attributes. Behaves 
  like a list regarding inserting/appending components.</p>
  example:
<pre class="literalblock">
   &gt;&gt;&gt; DIV('hello', 'world', _style='color:red;').xml()
   '&lt;div style=&quot;color:red;&quot;&gt;helloworld&lt;/div&gt;'
</pre>
  <p>all other HTML helpers are derived from DIV.</p>
  _something=&quot;value&quot; attributes are transparently translated 
  into something=&quot;value&quot; HTML attributes<br /><br />

<!-- ==================== INSTANCE METHODS ==================== -->
<a name="section-InstanceMethods"></a>
<table class="summary" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr bgcolor="#70b0f0" class="table-header">
  <td colspan="2" class="table-header">
    <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
      <tr valign="top">
        <td align="left"><span class="table-header">Instance Methods</span></td>
        <td align="right" valign="top"
         ><span class="options">[<a href="#section-InstanceMethods"
         class="privatelink" onclick="toggle_private();"
         >hide private</a>]</span></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="web2py.gluon.html.DIV-class.html#__init__" class="summary-sig-name">__init__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">*components</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">**attributes</span>)</span><br />
      :param *components: any components that should be nested in this 
      element :param **attributes: any attributes you want to give to this 
      element</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.__init__">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a name="update"></a><span class="summary-sig-name">update</span>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">**kargs</span>)</span><br />
      dictionary like updating of the tag attributes</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.update">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="web2py.gluon.html.DIV-class.html#append" class="summary-sig-name">append</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">value</span>)</span><br />
      list style appending of components</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.append">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="web2py.gluon.html.DIV-class.html#insert" class="summary-sig-name">insert</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">i</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">value</span>)</span><br />
      list style inserting of components</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.insert">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="web2py.gluon.html.DIV-class.html#__getitem__" class="summary-sig-name">__getitem__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">i</span>)</span><br />
      gets attribute with name 'i' or component #i.</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.__getitem__">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="web2py.gluon.html.DIV-class.html#__setitem__" class="summary-sig-name">__setitem__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">i</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">value</span>)</span><br />
      sets attribute with name 'i' or component #i.</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.__setitem__">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="web2py.gluon.html.DIV-class.html#__delitem__" class="summary-sig-name">__delitem__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">i</span>)</span><br />
      deletes attribute with name 'i' or component #i.</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.__delitem__">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a name="__len__"></a><span class="summary-sig-name">__len__</span>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>)</span><br />
      returns the number of included components</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.__len__">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a name="__nonzero__"></a><span class="summary-sig-name">__nonzero__</span>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>)</span><br />
      always return True</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.__nonzero__">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr class="private">
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="web2py.gluon.html.DIV-class.html#_fixup" class="summary-sig-name">_fixup</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>)</span><br />
      Handling of provided components.</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV._fixup">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr class="private">
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="web2py.gluon.html.DIV-class.html#_wrap_components" class="summary-sig-name">_wrap_components</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">allowed_parents</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">wrap_parent</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">1</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">wrap_lambda</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">1</span>)</span><br />
      helper for _fixup.</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV._wrap_components">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr class="private">
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="web2py.gluon.html.DIV-class.html#_postprocessing" class="summary-sig-name">_postprocessing</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>)</span><br />
      Handling of attributes (normally the ones not prefixed with 
      '_').</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV._postprocessing">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr class="private">
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a name="_traverse"></a><span class="summary-sig-name">_traverse</span>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">status</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">hideerror</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">True</span>)</span></td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV._traverse">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr class="private">
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="web2py.gluon.html.DIV-class.html#_validate" class="summary-sig-name">_validate</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>)</span><br />
      nothing to validate yet.</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV._validate">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr class="private">
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a name="_setnode"></a><span class="summary-sig-name">_setnode</span>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">value</span>)</span></td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV._setnode">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr class="private">
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="web2py.gluon.html.DIV-class.html#_xml" class="summary-sig-name">_xml</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>)</span><br />
      helper for xml generation.</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV._xml">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="web2py.gluon.html.DIV-class.html#xml" class="summary-sig-name">xml</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>)</span><br />
      generates the xml for this component.</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.xml">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="web2py.gluon.html.DIV-class.html#__str__" class="summary-sig-name">__str__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>)</span><br />
      str(COMPONENT) returns equals COMPONENT.xml()</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.__str__">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="web2py.gluon.html.DIV-class.html#flatten" class="summary-sig-name">flatten</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">render</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">1</span>)</span><br />
      return the text stored by the DIV object rendered by the render 
      function the render function must take text, tagname, and attributes 
      render=None is equivalent to render=lambda text, tag, attr: text</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.flatten">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="web2py.gluon.html.DIV-class.html#elements" class="summary-sig-name">elements</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">*args</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">**kargs</span>)</span><br />
      find all component that match the supplied attribute dictionary, 
      or None if nothing could be found</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.elements">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="web2py.gluon.html.DIV-class.html#element" class="summary-sig-name">element</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">*args</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">**kargs</span>)</span><br />
      find the first component that matches the supplied attribute 
      dictionary, or None if nothing could be found</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.element">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a name="siblings"></a><span class="summary-sig-name">siblings</span>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">*args</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">**kargs</span>)</span><br />
      find all sibling components that match the supplied argument list 
      and attribute dictionary, or None if nothing could be found</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.siblings">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
        <tr>
          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a name="sibling"></a><span class="summary-sig-name">sibling</span>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">*args</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">**kargs</span>)</span><br />
      find the first sibling component that match the supplied argument 
      list and attribute dictionary, or None if nothing could be found</td>
          <td align="right" valign="top">
            <span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.sibling">source&nbsp;code</a></span>
            
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" class="summary">
    <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code>object</code></b>:
      <code>__delattr__</code>,
      <code>__getattribute__</code>,
      <code>__hash__</code>,
      <code>__new__</code>,
      <code>__reduce__</code>,
      <code>__reduce_ex__</code>,
      <code>__repr__</code>,
      <code>__setattr__</code>
      </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<!-- ==================== CLASS VARIABLES ==================== -->
<a name="section-ClassVariables"></a>
<table class="summary" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr bgcolor="#70b0f0" class="table-header">
  <td colspan="2" class="table-header">
    <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
      <tr valign="top">
        <td align="left"><span class="table-header">Class Variables</span></td>
        <td align="right" valign="top"
         ><span class="options">[<a href="#section-ClassVariables"
         class="privatelink" onclick="toggle_private();"
         >hide private</a>]</span></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
        <a name="tag"></a><span class="summary-name">tag</span> = <code title="'div'"><code class="variable-quote">'</code><code class="variable-string">div</code><code class="variable-quote">'</code></code>
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
        <a name="regex_tag"></a><span class="summary-name">regex_tag</span> = <code title="re.compile(r'^[\w-:]+')">re.compile(r'^<code class="re-group">[</code>\w-:<code class="re-group">]</code><code class="re-op">+</code>')</code>
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
        <a name="regex_id"></a><span class="summary-name">regex_id</span> = <code title="re.compile(r'#([\w-]+)')">re.compile(r'#<code class="re-group">(</code><code class="re-group">[</code>\w-<code class="re-group">]</code><code class="re-op">+</code><code class="re-group">)</code>')</code>
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
        <a name="regex_class"></a><span class="summary-name">regex_class</span> = <code title="re.compile(r'\.([\w-]+)')">re.compile(r'\.<code class="re-group">(</code><code class="re-group">[</code>\w-<code class="re-group">]</code><code class="re-op">+</code><code class="re-group">)</code>')</code>
    </td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
      <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
    </td><td class="summary">
        <a name="regex_attr"></a><span class="summary-name">regex_attr</span> = <code title="re.compile(r'\[([\w-:]+)=(.*?)\]')">re.compile(r'\[<code class="re-group">(</code><code class="re-group">[</code>\w-:<code class="re-group">]</code><code class="re-op">+</code><code class="re-group">)</code>=<code class="re-group">(</code>.<code class="re-op">*?</code><code class="re-group">)</code>\]')</code>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<!-- ==================== PROPERTIES ==================== -->
<a name="section-Properties"></a>
<table class="summary" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr bgcolor="#70b0f0" class="table-header">
  <td colspan="2" class="table-header">
    <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
      <tr valign="top">
        <td align="left"><span class="table-header">Properties</span></td>
        <td align="right" valign="top"
         ><span class="options">[<a href="#section-Properties"
         class="privatelink" onclick="toggle_private();"
         >hide private</a>]</span></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </td>
</tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" class="summary">
    <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code>object</code></b>:
      <code>__class__</code>
      </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<!-- ==================== METHOD DETAILS ==================== -->
<a name="section-MethodDetails"></a>
<table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr bgcolor="#70b0f0" class="table-header">
  <td colspan="2" class="table-header">
    <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
      <tr valign="top">
        <td align="left"><span class="table-header">Method Details</span></td>
        <td align="right" valign="top"
         ><span class="options">[<a href="#section-MethodDetails"
         class="privatelink" onclick="toggle_private();"
         >hide private</a>]</span></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </td>
</tr>
</table>
<a name="__init__"></a>
<div>
<table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr><td>
  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr valign="top"><td>
  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__init__</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">*components</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">**attributes</span>)</span>
    <br /><em class="fname">(Constructor)</em>
  </h3>
  </td><td align="right" valign="top"
    ><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.__init__">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
    </td>
  </table>
  
  <p>:param *components: any components that should be nested in this 
  element :param **attributes: any attributes you want to give to this 
  element</p>
  :raises SyntaxError: when a stand alone tag receives components
  <dl class="fields">
    <dt>Overrides:
      object.__init__
    </dt>
  </dl>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<a name="append"></a>
<div>
<table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr><td>
  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr valign="top"><td>
  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">append</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">value</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  </td><td align="right" valign="top"
    ><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.append">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
    </td>
  </table>
  
  list style appending of components
<pre class="py-doctest">
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>a=DIV()
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>a.append(SPAN(<span class="py-string">'x'</span>))
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="py-keyword">print</span> a
<span class="py-output">&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</span></pre>
  <dl class="fields">
  </dl>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<a name="insert"></a>
<div>
<table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr><td>
  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr valign="top"><td>
  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">insert</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">i</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">value</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  </td><td align="right" valign="top"
    ><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.insert">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
    </td>
  </table>
  
  list style inserting of components
<pre class="py-doctest">
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>a=DIV()
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>a.insert(0,SPAN(<span class="py-string">'x'</span>))
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="py-keyword">print</span> a
<span class="py-output">&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;x&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</span></pre>
  <dl class="fields">
  </dl>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<a name="__getitem__"></a>
<div>
<table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr><td>
  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr valign="top"><td>
  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__getitem__</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">i</span>)</span>
    <br /><em class="fname">(Indexing operator)</em>
  </h3>
  </td><td align="right" valign="top"
    ><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.__getitem__">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
    </td>
  </table>
  
  <pre class="literalblock">

gets attribute with name 'i' or component #i.
If attribute 'i' is not found returns None

:param i: index
   if i is a string: the name of the attribute
   otherwise references to number of the component

</pre>
  <dl class="fields">
  </dl>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<a name="__setitem__"></a>
<div>
<table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr><td>
  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr valign="top"><td>
  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__setitem__</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">i</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">value</span>)</span>
    <br /><em class="fname">(Index assignment operator)</em>
  </h3>
  </td><td align="right" valign="top"
    ><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.__setitem__">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
    </td>
  </table>
  
  <pre class="literalblock">

sets attribute with name 'i' or component #i.

:param i: index
   if i is a string: the name of the attribute
   otherwise references to number of the component
:param value: the new value

</pre>
  <dl class="fields">
  </dl>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<a name="__delitem__"></a>
<div>
<table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr><td>
  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr valign="top"><td>
  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__delitem__</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">i</span>)</span>
    <br /><em class="fname">(Index deletion operator)</em>
  </h3>
  </td><td align="right" valign="top"
    ><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.__delitem__">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
    </td>
  </table>
  
  <pre class="literalblock">

deletes attribute with name 'i' or component #i.

:param i: index
   if i is a string: the name of the attribute
   otherwise references to number of the component

</pre>
  <dl class="fields">
  </dl>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<a name="_fixup"></a>
<div class="private">
<table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr><td>
  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr valign="top"><td>
  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">_fixup</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  </td><td align="right" valign="top"
    ><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV._fixup">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
    </td>
  </table>
  
  <p>Handling of provided components.</p>
  Nothing to fixup yet. May be overridden by subclasses, eg for wrapping
  some components in another component or blocking them.
  <dl class="fields">
  </dl>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<a name="_wrap_components"></a>
<div class="private">
<table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr><td>
  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr valign="top"><td>
  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">_wrap_components</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">allowed_parents</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">wrap_parent</span>=<span class="sig-default">1</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">wrap_lambda</span>=<span class="sig-default">1</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  </td><td align="right" valign="top"
    ><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV._wrap_components">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
    </td>
  </table>
  
  <pre class="literalblock">

helper for _fixup. Checks if a component is in allowed_parents,
otherwise wraps it in wrap_parent

:param allowed_parents: (tuple) classes that the component should be an
    instance of
:param wrap_parent: the class to wrap the component in, if needed
:param wrap_lambda: lambda to use for wrapping, if needed

</pre>
  <dl class="fields">
  </dl>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<a name="_postprocessing"></a>
<div class="private">
<table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr><td>
  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr valign="top"><td>
  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">_postprocessing</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  </td><td align="right" valign="top"
    ><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV._postprocessing">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
    </td>
  </table>
  
  <p>Handling of attributes (normally the ones not prefixed with '_').</p>
  Nothing to postprocess yet. May be overridden by subclasses
  <dl class="fields">
  </dl>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<a name="_validate"></a>
<div class="private">
<table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr><td>
  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr valign="top"><td>
  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">_validate</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  </td><td align="right" valign="top"
    ><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV._validate">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
    </td>
  </table>
  
  nothing to validate yet. May be overridden by subclasses
  <dl class="fields">
  </dl>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<a name="_xml"></a>
<div class="private">
<table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr><td>
  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr valign="top"><td>
  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">_xml</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  </td><td align="right" valign="top"
    ><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV._xml">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
    </td>
  </table>
  
  <pre class="literalblock">

helper for xml generation. Returns separately:
- the component attributes
- the generated xml of the inner components

Component attributes start with an underscore ('_') and
do not have a False or None value. The underscore is removed.
A value of True is replaced with the attribute name.

:returns: tuple: (attributes, components)

</pre>
  <dl class="fields">
  </dl>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<a name="xml"></a>
<div>
<table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr><td>
  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr valign="top"><td>
  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">xml</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  </td><td align="right" valign="top"
    ><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.xml">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
    </td>
  </table>
  
  generates the xml for this component.
  <dl class="fields">
    <dt>Overrides:
      <a href="web2py.gluon.html.XmlComponent-class.html#xml">XmlComponent.xml</a>
    </dt>
  </dl>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<a name="__str__"></a>
<div>
<table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr><td>
  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr valign="top"><td>
  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__str__</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>)</span>
    <br /><em class="fname">(Informal representation operator)</em>
  </h3>
  </td><td align="right" valign="top"
    ><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.__str__">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
    </td>
  </table>
  
  str(COMPONENT) returns equals COMPONENT.xml()
  <dl class="fields">
    <dt>Overrides:
      object.__str__
    </dt>
  </dl>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<a name="flatten"></a>
<div>
<table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr><td>
  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr valign="top"><td>
  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">flatten</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">render</span>=<span class="sig-default">1</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  </td><td align="right" valign="top"
    ><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.flatten">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
    </td>
  </table>
  
  return the text stored by the DIV object rendered by the render 
  function the render function must take text, tagname, and attributes 
  render=None is equivalent to render=lambda text, tag, attr: text
<pre class="py-doctest">
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>markdown = <span class="py-keyword">lambda</span> text,tag=None,attributes={}:                         {None: re.sub(<span class="py-string">'\s+'</span>,<span class="py-string">' '</span>,text),                          <span class="py-string">'h1'</span>:<span class="py-string">'#'</span>+text+<span class="py-string">'\n\n'</span>,                          <span class="py-string">'p'</span>:text+<span class="py-string">'\n'</span>}.get(tag,text)
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>a=TAG(<span class="py-string">'&lt;h1&gt;Header&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;this is a     test&lt;/p&gt;'</span>)
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>a.flatten(markdown)
<span class="py-output">'#Header\n\nthis is a test\n'</span></pre>
  <dl class="fields">
  </dl>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<a name="elements"></a>
<div>
<table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr><td>
  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr valign="top"><td>
  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">elements</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">*args</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">**kargs</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  </td><td align="right" valign="top"
    ><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.elements">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
    </td>
  </table>
  
  <p>find all component that match the supplied attribute dictionary, or 
  None if nothing could be found</p>
  All components of the components are searched.
<pre class="py-doctest">
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>a = DIV(DIV(SPAN(<span class="py-string">'x'</span>),3,DIV(SPAN(<span class="py-string">'y'</span>))))
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="py-keyword">for</span> c <span class="py-keyword">in</span> a.elements(<span class="py-string">'span'</span>,first_only=True): c[0]=<span class="py-string">'z'</span>
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="py-keyword">print</span> a
<span class="py-output">&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;z&lt;/span&gt;3&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</span>
<span class="py-output"></span><span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="py-keyword">for</span> c <span class="py-keyword">in</span> a.elements(<span class="py-string">'span'</span>): c[0]=<span class="py-string">'z'</span>
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="py-keyword">print</span> a
<span class="py-output">&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;z&lt;/span&gt;3&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;z&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</span></pre>
  It also supports a syntax compatible with jQuery
<pre class="py-doctest">
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>a=TAG(<span class="py-string">'&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a id=&quot;1-1&quot; u:v=$&gt;hello&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;this is a test&quot;&gt;world&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;'</span>)
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="py-keyword">for</span> e <span class="py-keyword">in</span> a.elements(<span class="py-string">'div a#1-1, p.is'</span>): <span class="py-keyword">print</span> e.flatten()
<span class="py-output">hello</span>
<span class="py-output">world</span>
<span class="py-output"></span><span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="py-keyword">for</span> e <span class="py-keyword">in</span> a.elements(<span class="py-string">'#1-1'</span>): <span class="py-keyword">print</span> e.flatten()
<span class="py-output">hello</span>
<span class="py-output"></span><span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>a.elements(<span class="py-string">'a[u:v=$]'</span>)[0].xml()
<span class="py-output">'&lt;a id=&quot;1-1&quot; u:v=&quot;$&quot;&gt;hello&lt;/a&gt;'</span></pre>
<pre class="py-doctest">
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>a=FORM( INPUT(_type=<span class="py-string">'text'</span>), SELECT(range(1)), TEXTAREA() )
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="py-keyword">for</span> c <span class="py-keyword">in</span> a.elements(<span class="py-string">'input, select, textarea'</span>): c[<span class="py-string">'_disabled'</span>] = <span class="py-string">'disabled'</span>
<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>a.xml()
<span class="py-output">'&lt;form action=&quot;&quot; enctype=&quot;multipart/form-data&quot; method=&quot;post&quot;&gt;&lt;input disabled=&quot;disabled&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; /&gt;&lt;select disabled=&quot;disabled&quot;&gt;&lt;option value=&quot;0&quot;&gt;0&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt;&lt;textarea cols=&quot;40&quot; disabled=&quot;disabled&quot; rows=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;/form&gt;'</span></pre>
  <dl class="fields">
  </dl>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<a name="element"></a>
<div>
<table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
       cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
<tr><td>
  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr valign="top"><td>
  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">element</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">*args</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">**kargs</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  </td><td align="right" valign="top"
    ><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.html-pysrc.html#DIV.element">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
    </td>
  </table>
  
  <p>find the first component that matches the supplied attribute 
  dictionary, or None if nothing could be found</p>
  Also the components of the components are searched.
  <dl class="fields">
  </dl>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<br />
<!-- ==================== NAVIGATION BAR ==================== -->
<table class="navbar" border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0"
       bgcolor="#a0c0ff" cellspacing="0">
  <tr valign="middle">
  <!-- Home link -->
      <th>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
        href="web2py.gluon-module.html">Home</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>

  <!-- Tree link -->
      <th>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
        href="module-tree.html">Trees</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>

  <!-- Index link -->
      <th>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
        href="identifier-index.html">Indices</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>

  <!-- Help link -->
      <th>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
        href="help.html">Help</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>

  <!-- Project homepage -->
      <th class="navbar" align="right" width="100%">
        <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
          <tr><th class="navbar" align="center"
            ><a class="navbar" target="_top" href="http://www.web2py.com">web2py Web Framework</a></th>
          </tr></table></th>
  </tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%%">
  <tr>
    <td align="left" class="footer">
    Generated by Epydoc 3.0beta1 on Thu Aug  4 00:47:01 2011
    </td>
    <td align="right" class="footer">
      <a href="http://epydoc.sourceforge.net">http://epydoc.sourceforge.net</a>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

<script type="text/javascript">
  <!--
  // Private objects are initially displayed (because if
  // javascript is turned off then we want them to be
  // visible); but by default, we want to hide them.  So hide
  // them unless we have a cookie that says to show them.
  checkCookie()
  // -->
</script>
  
</body>
</html>
