`<context>`

Contextual information is background information that helps people understand the purpose of the task and what they will gain by completing it.

Rendering expectations

Implementations might want to consider having their stylesheets render a label for this element.

Specialization hierarchy

The <context> element is specialized from <section>. It is defined in the task module.

Attributes

The following attributes are available on this element: universal attributes.

Example

This section is non-normative.

An author uses the following markup to provide users with more contextual information than is appropriate for a short description. Style sheets might generate a label, for example, About this procedure, to indicate clearly that the information provided is background information.

<task id="Generating-stub-files" xml:lang="en-us">
  <title>Generating stub files</title>
  <shortdesc>You can use Task Modeler to generate stub files. Stub files are 
             DITA files that contain only a title.</shortdesc>
  <taskbody>
    <context>As you perform this procedure, you can select the conventions that 
            you want to use for file names.
    </context>
   <!-- ... -->
  </taskbody>
</task>