Components are the building blocks in Slyde. In your XML template the elements you create represent those components. So in the example:

<presentation title="My First Slyde Presentation" by="Tygo van den Hurk">
  <slide title="Why you should use Slyde">
    <point>It is super **fast and easy** to make slides</point>
    <point>The animations are **gorgeous**!</point>
    <point>Recipient only needs a browser to open it</point>
  </slide>
</presentation>

Presentation, Slide, and Point are all components.

Using them

To use them, refer to them by their name, or one of their aliases. For example the image component can be used like this: <image/>, <slyde:image/>, ..., <img/>, ..., and <IMG/>.

Attributes

The way to customize your component is by passing attributes:

<image source="https://github.com/Tygo-van-den-Hurk.png" />

Component take those attributes and use them internally to change it's behavior or looks.

Special Attributes

There some attributes considered special in the sense that every component has them. Here is a list of special attributes and what they do:

• width, w: determines the width of a component.
• height, h: determines the width of a component.
• markdown: override the current markdown renderer.
• display: override the css display property.