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Thefollowingscriptclonesandpopulatesaboilerplaterow.Oncecompletedyouwillneedtohidethe

boilerplaterow.

html()

InaControlScript,thehtml()functionofasectionorMasterPagecanbeusedtogettheinitialcon-

tentsofits<body>,andmodifythem.Thismakesitpossible,forexample,topopulateasectionor

MasterPagewithelementsretrievedfromaContentManagementsystem,beforeStandardScripts

run.

html()

Getstheinitialcontentsofthe<body>ofasectionorMasterPage.

html(value)

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

isonlyavailableinControlScripts.Seealso:"section"onpage848and"masterpage"onpage817.

value

AStringthatmaycontainHTMLtags.

Examples

Thefollowingscriptuseshtml()toretrievethecontentsofasectionandaddaparagraphtoit.

var foo = merge.context.sections["Section 1"].html();

foo += "<p>hello world</p>";

merge.context.sections["Section 1"].html( foo );

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.context.sections["Section 1"];

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

mySection.html(promoTxt);

paginate()

Thismethodofthesectionobject(see"section"onpage848)triggerspaginationofthecurrentsec-

tion.Thepaginationprocessre-establishespageboundaries,updatespagenumbersandpagecounts,

andreappliesMasterPages.

Dependingonwhetherpagenumberingrestartsineachsectionthismayaffectthepagenumbersin

othersectionsaswell(see"Configuringpagenumbers"onpage137).

Whenthepaginationprocesshasended,thescriptresumes.

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