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18.1.4.3 Greater Elements

Unless specified otherwise, greater elements can contain directly any other element or greater element except:

• elements of their own type,
• node properties, which can only be found in property drawers,
• items, which can only be found in plain lists.

Variable: org-element-greater-elements ¶

org-element-greater-elements is a variable defined in ‘org-element.el’.

Its value is:

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item plain-list property-drawer quote-block section special-block table

This variable contains a list of recursive element types aka Greater Elements.

Unless specified otherwise, greater elements can contain directly any other element or greater element except:

• elements of their own type,
• node properties, which can only be found in property drawers,
• items, which can only be found in plain lists.

1. Greater Blocks
2. Drawers and Property Drawers
3. Dynamic Blocks
4. Footnote Definitions
5. Inlinetasks
6. Plain Lists and Items
7. Property Drawers
8. Tables