Common Attributes

The Common Attributes dialog allows you to set the listed attributes for selected elements (MathML tags). As with all properties dialogs, the Common Attributes dialog is opened from the Properties menu. When a MathML tag that you want to apply these attributes to is highlighted, such as mrow, mn, mo, etc., the Common Attributes option on the Properties menu becomes active and the dialog can be opened. Any attribute set in this dialog will apply to whatever is selected in the editor.

MathFlow uses the class attribute to set user-defined font styles on an element, but the rest of these attributes are not directly used (and therefore ignored) by MathFlow. However, since these attributes are shared by all MathML elements, each one can be set to facilitate the use of style sheet mechanisms such as XSLT and CSS2.

All MathML elements accept class, style, and id attributes in addition to the attributes described specifically for each element. MathML specifies these attribute values as general strings, even if style sheet mechanisms have more restrictive syntaxes for them. That is, any value used for them is valid in MathML.