18.1.1 Elements—Greater Elements—Objects

Greater Elements

Elements containing other elements (and only elements) are called greater elements. The following are greater elements:

• center-block
• drawer
• dynamic-block
• footnote-definition
• headline
• inlinetask
• item
• plain-list
• property-drawer
• quote-block
• section
• special-block

Regular Elements

Regular elements include the following:

• babel-call
• clock
• comment
• comment-block
• diary-sexp
• example-block
• export-block
• fixed-width
• horizontal-rule
• keyword
• latex-environment
• node-property
• paragraph (can contain objects and plain text)
• planning
• quote-section
• src-block
• table
• table-row
• verse-block (can contain objects and plain text)

Affiliated Keywords

Most elements accept a fixed set of keywords as attributes, called affiliated keywords. They are not to be confused with regular keywords, which are elements. Affiliated keywords are stored in the variable org-element-affiliated-keywords, which contains:

• "CAPTION"
• "DATA"
• "HEADER"
• "HEADERS"
• "LABEL"
• "NAME"
• "PLOT"
• "RESNAME"
• "RESULT"
• "RESULTS"
• "SOURCE"
• "SRCNAME"
• "TBLNAME"
• "ATTR_…"

The following elements do not accept affiliated keywords:

`clock', `headline', `inlinetask', `item', `planning', `node-property', `quote-section' `section' and `table-row' types

Objects

Objects include the following:

• bold
• code
• entity
• export-snippet
• footnote-reference
• inline-babel-call
• inline-src-block
• italic
• latex-fragment
• line-break
• link
• macro
• radio-target
• statistics-cookie
• strike-through
• subscript
• superscript
• table-cell
• target
• timestamp
• underline
• verbatim