XFA Specification
Chapter 15, Template Specification
Template Reference
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The assist element
An element that supplies additional information about a container for users of interactive applications.
<assist
Properties:
id="xml-id"
role="cdata"
use="cdata"
usehref="cdata"
>
<speak>
[0..1]
<toolTip>
[0..1]
</assist>
The assist element is used within the following other elements:
draw exclGroup field proto subform
The assist element provides a means to specify the
tool tip
spoken prompt.
The id property
A unique identifier that may be used to identify this element as a target.
The role property
Specifies the role played by the parent container. Such a role specification may be used by speech-enabled
XFA processing applications to provide information. For example, this attribute may be assigned values
borrowed from HTML, such as role="TH" (table headings) and role="TR" (table rows).
The speak property
An audible prompt describing the contents of a container. This element is ignored by non-interactive
applications.
For more information see "The
The toolTip property
An element that supplies text for a tool tip. This element is ignored by non-interactive applications.
For more information see "The
The use property
Invokes another object in the same document as a prototype for this object. The content of this property is
either a SOM expression (which cannot start with '#') or a '#' character followed by an XML ID.
Starting with XFA 2.4 the object used as a prototype no longer needs to be the child of
proto
. Any object
of the appropriate class can be used as a prototype.
If both
use
and
usehref
are non-empty
usehref
takes precedence.