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Table Of Contents

Functions and fields

Field Type Description

"Examples" on

page1378

Sets the initial HTML of the body element.

"Setting the margins

of a Print section" on

page1403

Margins Allows to set the header and footer of a Master Page,

using a Measurement string, for example: "2in" (this

sets a margin to two inches).

html(value)

Replaces the contents of the <body> of a section or Master Page by the supplied value. This

function is only available in Control Scripts. See also: "section" on page1395 and

"masterpage" on the previous page.

value

A String that may contain HTML tags.

Examples

The following script loads a snippet based on the value of a field, and then replaces the content

of a Print section with the snippet using html().

var mySection = merge.template.contexts.PRINT.sections["Section

1"];

var promoTxt = loadhtml('snippets/promo-' + record.fields['City'] +

'.html', );

mySection.html(promoTxt);

margins

The margins object is used to set a Print section or Master Page's margins in a Control Script

(see "Control Scripts" on page885 and "Control Script API" on page1351).

Note that Master Pages are only used in a Print context (see "Master Pages" on page505).

The margins object is retrieved via the section object (see "section" on page1395) or via the

masterpages array in a template (see "masterpage" on the previous page), respectively.

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