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Common Questions

Adding and removing elements created by Point

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Solution

Point works by surrounding each word in Point-enabled areas of a page within an HTML <span> element. For most pages, these <span>s cause no harm, but for some pages it may be desirable to remove these <span> elements when Point is not enabled. There are two Point configuration options in point_config.js that control this behaviour:

Point.spanifyOnLoad = false;    Point.despanifyWhenDisabled = true;  

Point.spanifyOnLoad controls whether Point should create its <span>s immediately after the page loads. If set to false and the Point is switched off (because the user has previously switched it off or not switched it on), no Point <span>s are created until the user switches Point on.

Point.despanifyWhenDisabled controls whether Point should remove its <span>s when Point is switched off. Setting this to true will have a slight impact on performance when the user switches Point off.