A WTemplate is a widget which displays an XHTML fragment in which other widgets or strings may be bound. This is especially useful as an alternative to a container widget if you want to use CSS for style and layout, and the contents is well specified (i.e. not dynamic).

In a template, ${var} indicates a place holder which is substituted with a widget or string that is bound to the template.

The template text can be provided by a WString and is thus easily localized and internalitionalized using a message resource bundle.

Below is an example of a template:

    <div class="form">
      <p>
	<label>Please enter your name: ${name-edit}</label>
      </p>
      <p>
	${save-button} ${cancel-button}
      </p>
    </div>
  

When instantiated and bound using a WLineEdit and two WPushButtons, this becomes: