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Remove Elements

As Paligo uses structured content, you have more control over deleting your content. With a single action, you can delete entire structures, individual elements, or only the content inside an element. This is one of the benefits of structured content. Depending on what you want to achieve, you can:

Tip

If you are unfamiliar with the concept of "parent" and "child" elements, see Understanding Content Structures.

  • Delete text and leave the structural elements in place

  • Remove an element but leave its content in place (this only applies to inline elements, such as emphasis and guilabel).

  • Delete an element to remove the content of the element. When you delete an element, Paligo will remove:

    • The selected element

    • Any text or other content inside the element

    • Any "child" elements inside the element

    • Any text or other content inside the "child" elements.

    XML tree view of an ordered list. At the top level it has ordered list, mediaobject, and then another ordered list. The mediaobject is incorrectly at the top level. It should be inside the third list item in the first orderedlist.

    You can view the structure by looking at the XML Tree View.

    mediaobject-in-element-structure-menu.jpg

    The structure from the top-level section to the currently selected element is also shown in the Element Structure Menu.

Note

As Paligo uses structured content, you cannot just highlight multiple sections of a page and press delete. That's not how structured content works. Your content elements are in a hierarchy and so need to be deleted as structures, either as individual elements or as "parent" plus "child" elements.

Tip

If you want to delete an inline element, such as emphasis, rather than an entire block of text, see Delete Inline Elements.

If you accidentally delete a paragraph, there is a way to restore it. You can use Reuse Text Fragments to search for the paragraph and then insert it again. However, this is only possible for a limited time period after the deletion took place (approximately one day). Alternatively, you could use Revert a Text Fragment to a Previous Revision.