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# The AutoComponents

The `AutoText` component that we used in the Hello World example is one of the AutoComponents supplied with the JavaScript API for Xpress Insight.

These components take much of the laborious preparation work out of setting up the most commonly used data-driven web components. They provide a great deal of functionality that can be configured with only a small amount of easily understood code.

Covered Topics

- AutoText
  AutoText enables HTML elements to be populated automatically with the values from scalar, parameter, or array entities through the addition of extra attributes to the HTML elements.
- AutoForm
  AutoForm associates form input elements with scalar, parameter, or array entity elements.
- AutoTable
  The AutoTable component is used to generate HTML tables from a given list of array entities.
- Entity Validation
  The AutoForm and AutoTable components have built-in validation.

Parent Topic Using the JavaScript API to Create Custom Views

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