At the core of the HTML Tags provided by WebWork are themes and templates. We'll first start off with a simple definition of three key terms:

  • tag - a small piece of code executed from within JSP, FreeMarker, or Velocity.
  • template - a bit of code, usually written in FreeMarker, that can be rendered by certain tags (HTML tags)
  • theme - a collection of templates packaged together to provide common functionality

Tags are covered in the Tags section, so we won't discuss them much here other than their relationship to themes and templates already stated. Instead, we'll focus on several important topics: