MarkupElement (Wicket Parent 9.18.0-SNAPSHOT API)

java.lang.Object
- org.apache.wicket.markup.MarkupElement

Direct Known Subclasses:

ComponentTag, HtmlSpecialTag, RawMarkup
```
public abstract class MarkupElement
extends Object
```
Base class for different kinds of markup elements. Markup elements are held in a Markup container object.
Wicket divides markup like (x)html, wml etc. into two types of MarkupElements:
- ComponentTag, which represents a "significant" markup tag (meaning that the tag has some meaning to Wicket)
- RawMarkup, which is a section of unparsed markup having no meaning to Wicket.
Author:

Jonathan Locke

See Also:

RawMarkup, ComponentTag

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor Description

MarkupElement()
Constructor.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`boolean`	`closes(MarkupElement open)`	Gets whether this element closes the given element.
`abstract boolean`	`equalTo(MarkupElement element)`	This is not an implementation of equals because we don't care about hashCodes for MarkupElements yet.
`abstract CharSequence`	`toCharSequence()`
`abstract String`	`toUserDebugString()`	Gets a string representation.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Constructor Detail
  - MarkupElement
```
public MarkupElement()
```
    Constructor.
- Method Detail
  - closes
```
public boolean closes(MarkupElement open)
```
    Gets whether this element closes the given element.
    
    Parameters:
    
    open - The open tag
    
    Returns:
    
    True if this markup element closes the given open tag
  - equalTo
```
public abstract boolean equalTo(MarkupElement element)
```
    This is not an implementation of equals because we don't care about hashCodes for MarkupElements yet. Also, this method only compares the namespace, name and attributes of the given MarkupElements.
    
    Parameters:
    
    element - The markup element to compare with
    
    Returns:
    
    True if the other element equals this one
  - toCharSequence
```
public abstract CharSequence toCharSequence()
```
    Returns:
    
    Gets the charsequence representation of this element
  - toUserDebugString
```
public abstract String toUserDebugString()
```
    Gets a string representation.
    
    Returns:
    
    A string representation suitable for displaying to the user when something goes wrong.