mlreportgen.dom.ListItem Class

Namespace: mlreportgen.dom

Create item for ordered or unordered list

Description

Specifies an item in an ordered (numbered) or unordered (bulleted) list.

The mlreportgen.dom.ListItem class is a handle class.

Creation

Description

listItemObj = ListItem creates an empty list item.

listItemObj = ListItem(text) creates a list item using the specified text. The constructor creates a text object and appends the text object to the list item. In Microsoft^® Word and PDF output, text in a list item is wrapped in a paragraph because Word and PDF do not permit unwrapped text in list items. In HTML output, the text is not wrapped in a paragraph.

listItemObj = ListItem(text,styleName) creates a list item using the specified text and applies the specified style.

listItemObj = ListItem(domObj) creates a list item and appends the specified document element object to the list item.

listItemObj = ListItem(domObj,styleName) creates a list item using the specified document element object and style name.

Input Arguments

text — Text for list item

character vector

The constructor creates an mlreportgen.dom.Text object for the specified text.

domObj — Document element object

a DOM object

You can specify a Paragraph object or elements that you can append to a paragraph, including the following kinds of DOM objects:

• mlreportgen.dom.Text

• mlreportgen.dom.Paragraph

• mlreportgen.dom.Image

• mlreportgen.dom.Table

• mlreportgen.dom.FormalTable

• mlreportgen.dom.ExternalLink

• mlreportgen.dom.InternalLink

• mlreportgen.dom.CustomElement

styleName — Name of style for list item

character vector

Name of style to use for the list item, specified as a character vector or string scalar.

Properties

CustomAttributes — Custom attributes of document element

[] (default) | array of mlreportgen.dom.CustomAttribute objects

Custom attributes of this document element, specified as an array of mlreportgen.dom.CustomAttribute objects. The custom attributes must be supported by the output format of the document element to which this object is appended.

Attributes:

NonCopyable

true

Style — Format specification

{} (default) | array of DOM format objects

Format specification for this document element object, specified as an array of DOM format objects. The formats specified by this property override corresponding formats specified by the StyleName property of this element. Formats that do not apply to this document element object are ignored.

Attributes:

NonCopyable

true

StyleName — This property is ignored

not applicable

The class ignores this property.

Attributes:

NonCopyable

true

Parent — Parent of mlreportgen.dom.ListItem object

document element object

Parent of mlreportgen.dom.ListItem object, specified as a document element object. A document element must have only one parent.

Attributes:

SetAccess	private
NonCopyable	true

Children — Children of mlreportgen.dom.ListItem object

array of document element objects

Children of mlreportgen.dom.ListItem object, specified as an array of document element objects. This property contains the document element objects appended using the append method.

Attributes:

SetAccess	private
NonCopyable	true

Tag — Tag for mlreportgen.dom.ListItem object

character vector | string scalar

Tag for the mlreportgen.dom.ListItem object, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The DOM API generates a session-unique tag as part of the creation of this object. The generated tag has the form CLASS:ID, where CLASS is the object class and ID is the value of the Id property of the object. Specify your own tag value to help you identify where to look when an issue occurs during document generation.

Attributes:

NonCopyable

true

Data Types: char | string

Id — Object identifier for mlreportgen.dom.ListItem object

character vector | string scalar

Object identifier for the mlreportgen.dom.ListItem object, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The DOM API generates a session-unique identifier when it creates the document element object. You can specify your own value for Id.

Attributes:

NonCopyable

true

Data Types: char | string

Methods

Public Methods

Method	Purpose
append Use ListItem.append in a similar way as you use Paragraph.append, except you can append different content to a list item than to a paragraph.	Append a character vector or any of these kinds of DOM objects to a list item: mlreportgen.dom.CustomElement mlreportgen.dom.EmbeddedObject mlreportgen.dom.ExternalLink mlreportgen.dom.FormalTable mlreportgen.dom.Image mlreportgen.dom.InternalLink mlreportgen.dom.LineBreak mlreportgen.dom.MATLABTable mlreportgen.dom.NumPages mlreportgen.dom.OrderedList mlreportgen.dom.Page mlreportgen.dom.PageRef mlreportgen.dom.Paragraph mlreportgen.dom.Table mlreportgen.dom.Text In Microsoft Word and PDF output, text in a list item is wrapped in a paragraph because Word and PDF do not permit unwrapped text in list items. In HTML output, the text is not wrapped in a paragraph. mlreportgen.dom.UnorderedList
clone Use ListItem.clone the same way you use Paragraph.clone.	Clone a list item.

Examples

Create List Items for an Ordered List

import mlreportgen.dom.*;
doctype = 'html';
d = Document('test',doctype);
p = Paragraph('Perform the following steps.');
append(d,p);

step1 = ListItem('Do this step first.');
textForItem = Text('Next, do this.');
step2 = ListItem(textForItem);
procedure = OrderedList();
append(procedure,step1);
append(procedure,step2);
append(d,procedure);

close(d);
rptview('test',doctype);

Tips

• Depending on how you create a multilevel list, a sublist can be a child of the parent list or a child of the preceding list item in the parent list. If the sublist is child of a list item in the parent list, the sublist inherits the formatting from the list item. If the sublist is a child of the parent list, the sublist does not inherit the formatting from the previous list item. See Format List Items in Multilevel Lists.

Version History

Introduced in R2014b