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An Introduction to the Rich Edit Control API

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This topic presents a brief outline of the Rich Edit control’s public API.

A comprehensive API exposed via the control’s Document property complements the TdxRichEditControl component’s extensive focus on end-user capabilities. The API has a hierarchical structure corresponding to a document’s internal representation comprised of:

The document level corresponds to the main document body divided into sections, including subdocuments:

The Rich Edit control’s Document property represents the document API level and provides access to:

The subdocument level corresponds to individual subdocuments, that is:

All subdocuments are fully functional documents allowing you to insert, edit, format, and delete text, manage tables, hyperlinks, bookmarks, etc. However, unlike headers and footers, text boxes are unable to host floating objects (for example, shapes), including other text boxes.

The common subdocument functionality includes: