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widget element

This documentation relates to Opera's now deprecated .oex Extension API framework for Opera versions <= 12.15 and also provided by our OEX2NEX shim library.

For the latest Opera Extensions API documentation for Opera versions > 12.15 please consult the latest Opera Extensions API documentation online.

Description

The <widget> element is the container element under which the rest of the elements of the config.xml file go. The following attributes are associated with it.

• id: A URL that uniquely identifies the widget or extension.
  • This is used by the browser for identifying installations and for automatically updating the extension.
  • The id is set automatically by the Opera extensions repository when a new extension is uploaded.
  • Developers should add an id attribute during development to avoid installing multiple instances of the same extension.
• version: Specifies a version of the extension.

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<widget xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" id="http://example.com/myExtension" version="1.0">
  ...
</widget>