API docs for “nevow.page.Element”

Class n.p.Element(object):

An Element is an object responsible for rendering part or all of a page.

Elements provide a way to separate the responsibility for page rendering into different units of code.

Elements implement IRendererFactory to return render methods which are registered using nevow.page.renderer. For example:

   class Menu(Element):
       def items(self, request, tag):
           ....
       renderer(items)

Render methods are invoked with two arguments: first, the nevow.inevow.IRequest being served and second, the tag object which "invoked" the render method.

Instance Variables docFactory The inevow.IDocFactory which will be used during rendering.

Line #	Kind	Name	Docs
69	Method	__init__	Undocumented
75	Method	renderer	Given a context object and a name, return a callable which responds
85	Method	rend	Turn this instance into stan suitable for displaying it in a web page.

def __init__(self, docFactory=None): (source)

overridden in nevow.livetrial.testcase.TestError

Undocumented

def renderer(self, context, name): (source)

from nevow.inevow.IRendererFactory

Given a context object and a name, return a callable which responds to the signature (context, data) or (data) and returns an object which is flattenable.

def rend(self, ctx, data): (source)

from nevow.inevow.IRenderer

Turn this instance into stan suitable for displaying it in a web page.