Delete; Delete> Attributes - MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER MX 2004-EXTENDING DREAMWEAVER Manual

<delete>
Description
This tag is an optional advanced feature lets you control how to delete a participant. Without this
tag, the participant is deleted by removing it completely but only if no server behaviors refer to it.
By specifying a
<delete>
should be deleted.
Parent
implementation
Type
Tag.
Required
No.
<delete> attributes
The following items are valid attributes of the delete tag.
deleteType
Description
This attribute is used to indicate the type of delete to perform. It has different meanings,
depending on whether the participant is a directive, a tag, or an attribute. By default, the entire
participant is deleted.
Parent

delete

Type
Attribute.
Required
No.
Values
, ,
all none tagOnly
•
The value (default) deletes the entire directive or tag. For attributes, it deletes the
all
entire definition.
•
The value is never automatically deleted.
none
•
The
tagOnly
intact. For attributes, it also removes the outer tag if it is a block tag. It is meaningless for
directives.
•
The
innerOnly
For attributes, it removes only the value. It is meaningless for directives.
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tag, you can specify that it should never be deleted or that only portions
, ,
innerOnly attribute+attribName
value removes only the outer tag but leaves the contents of the
value, when applied to tags, removes only the contents (the
,
attribute+*
innerHTML
innerHTML
tag
tag).