Defining Inheritance

You define inheritance to enable attribute inheritance from an element containing other elements, for example, to control a specific attribute of an entire group of elements.

To define inheritance:

1. In Graphics Editor, in the Objects pane, select the parent element from which you want to use an attribute, for example, Group.
2. In the Properties pane, right-click anywhere and then click Add.
3. In the Add a Custom Attribute dialog box, type a name for the attribute that you want child elements to inherit, for example, Fill.
4. In the Objects pane, select the elements that are to inherit attributes from the container element to which they belong.
5. In the Properties pane, delete the attribute that you want the container element to control.
6. Click Remove.

NOTE: Make sure that the attribute that you add on the container element has a corresponding attribute on the inheriting elements. For example, Fill. Corresponding attributes must have identical names.

NOTE: You can override the inheritance from a container element by keeping the attribute on an element that belongs to the container element. This is useful when you want a group of elements in the same container element to inherit an attribute, but have one or a few elements in that container element, which should keep their individual attributes.