Elements Reference

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Overview

Courier Elemental provides a comprehensive set of reusable content elements that you can combine to build structured, cross-channel notification templates. Each element type serves a specific purpose and supports rich properties, conditional logic, and localization.

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Element Categories

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Channel & Structure Elements

Elements for channel-specific customization and structure.

• Channel - Channel-specific content customization
• Meta - Metadata like titles and subjects

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Content Elements

Elements for displaying text, images, and interactive content.

• Text - Text content with rich formatting options
• Action - Clickable buttons and links
• Image - Embedded images with optional links
• Quote - Quote blocks with styling options
• HTML - Raw HTML content

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Layout Elements

Elements for organizing and structuring content.

• Columns - Multi-column layouts
• Group - Group elements together for conditional logic
• List - Ordered and unordered lists with nesting support
• Divider - Visual dividers between content

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Advanced Elements

Elements for advanced templating and development.

• Jsonnet - Jsonnet templates for programmatic content generation
• Comment - Non-rendered comments for documentation

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Quick Reference

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Common Patterns

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Control Flow

All elements support control flow properties:

• if - Conditional rendering (accepts a string expression or a structured condition array)
• loop - Repeat elements
• ref - Reference elements

See the Control Flow documentation for details.

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Localization

Many elements support the locales property for multi-language content:

• content - Localized text content
• title - Localized titles (meta element)
• href - Localized URLs (action, image elements)

See the Locales documentation for details.

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