Control Vs Element

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

Anyone of you please let me know the difference between Control and Element in SAP UI5.

@Thanks in advance

Regards,

Sravya

[Former Member]

Hi,

Elements are parts of the control.

for example..

List is a control and ListItem is its elements.

Elements cannot be used standalone and they dont have their own renderer.control that uses the element does the rendering.

Hope this clears your doubt

[Former Member]

Hi Rajeesh,

List is a control and Listitem is its element. How can I check the Elements respective to the particular control.

Is it necessary every control have a element?

@Thanks in advance

[Former Member]

No its not necessary to have an element for every control.You can find elements of a control in sapui5 documentation.There you can see some controls have aggregations defined.

For example..List,Table,TileContainer,combobox etc

[Former Member]

Thanks Rajeesh, But I was little bit confuse about the Elements in UI5. Do you have any document please share.

[Former Member]

No.but just an sap help page

Working with Controls in SAPUI5 - UI Development Toolkit for HTML5 (SAPUI5) - SAP Library

[Former Member]

As per my understanding sap.ui.core.Control  this namespace extends to Elements , here we can check all the elements.

SAPUI5 SDK - Demo Kit